A Woman Worth Billions Dated the Wrong Brother novel Chapter 408

The Only Choice

Jason POV

“Check the food.”

The security officer beside me frowned.

“Check Amber’s food,” I repeated, louder this time. “We both ate, but only she collapsed. Test her tray, her water, the utensils-everything.”

For one brief second, the nurse stopped struggling.

That was enough.

Security immediately secured both trays, glasses and utensils as evidence while the medical team continued working around Amber. Then the sound of the fetal monitor changed, and every doctor near her reacted at once.

“Find Baby B.”

My stomach dropped.

The obstetrician moved the monitor across Amber’s abdomen while another doctor checked the readings. Their expressions were enough to make panic rise in my throat.

“What’s happening?”

The obstetrician looked at me. “The babies aren’t moving normally.”

“They were moving this morning.”

“I know. We still have cardiac activity, but both babies have stopped showing expected movement, and their heart -rate patterns are becoming concerning.”

“Then wake Amber up.”

“We’re trying to determine what she ingested.”

“Reverse it.”

“We may not have time.”

A member of the medical team entered with preliminary toxicology information. The obstetrician read it quickly before looking back at me.

“The remaining portion of Amber’s meal has tested positive for a very powerful sedative.”

“Then that’s why the babies aren’t moving.”

“No.” Her answer came carefully. “The sedative can affect fetal activity, but what we’re seeing is more severe than we would expect from that substance alone. We believe Amber was exposed to another drug, toxin or chemical agent as well, something capable of crossing the placenta and affecting the babies directly.”

I looked at Amber lying motionless on the bed. “What did they give her?”

“We don’t know yet. Toxicology is working on identifying it.”

“How long can you wait?”

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“We can’t.”

e doctor moved closer to me. “Amber is almost nine months pregnant with twins. At this point, delivery is safer than continuing to expose the babies to whatever is circulating through her system. Their heart-rate patterns are becoming unstable.”

“Will taking them out save them?”

The doctor hesitated, and that hesitation scared me inore than anything else she’d said.

“We’re going to do everything we can, but I can’t promise you they’ll be okay. Once they’re delivered, however the neonatal team can treat each baby independently instead of waiting for Amber’s body to metabolize an unknown substance.”

My eyes returned to Amber. She couldn’t ask questions. She couldn’t argue with them or demand another option She couldn’t make the decision herself.

The obstetrician seemed to understand exactly where my thoughts had gone. “Mr. Sun, Amber is unconscious. This is an emergency, and we need consent for an immediate cesarean delivery.”

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“Yes.”

I looked at my wife, but there was nothing to decide.

I knew Amber.

If there was even a chance that getting the twins out would protect them, she would already be demanding to know why the doctors were still standing around talking to me.

She would choose our children.

Every single time.

“Do it.”

The doctor nodded. “Mr. Sun, I need you to clearly confirm that you consent-”

“I consent to the C-section. Get them out.”

My voice broke, but I forced myself to continue. “Do whatever you have to do to save Amber and our babies.”

“We’re going to do everything possible for all three of them.”

“Then go.”

The room erupted into controlled movement. The obstetrician called the operating room while someone else summoned the neonatal team. Nurses transferred Amber onto portable monitoring and began preparing her bed for immediate transport.

I tried to stand again when they released the brakes.

My legs folded almost instantly.

A nurse caught me beneath the arm before I could hit the floor and pushed me back onto the mattress. “Mr. Sun, you cannot walk.”

“That’s my wife.”

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“I know.”

They’re taking my children.”

“And you just made the decision that gives them the best chance.”

I hated hearing it. I hated knowing she was right even more.

As Amber’s bed passed mine, I reached out and caught her fingers. Her hand was warm but completely limp in mine.

“Amber.”

She didn’t move.

I squeezed her hand. “I made the decision you’d make. The babies need you, but if you can’t wake up yet, I’ll do this part for you.”

The obstetrician allowed me only a few seconds before quietly saying, “We have to go.”

Amber’s fingers slipped from mine as they wheeled her into the corridor.

Then I heard Grandpa Asher’s voice.

“What happened?”

He had arrived with Grandpa and Grandma Sun, and all three of them stopped in the middle of the corridor when they saw Amber unconscious on the hospital bed, surrounded by doctors moving rapidly toward the emergency surgical wing.

Grandma Sun went white. “Amber?”

Grandpa Asher immediately moved toward the bed. “What happened to my granddaughter?”

Security stopped him before he could interfere with the medical team, and his expression turned murderous until Grandma Sun saw me through the open doorway.

“Jason!”

Grandpa Sun looked from Amber to the doctors and then directly at me. “What happened?”

“Someone poisoned her.”

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Grandpa Asher stared at me. “What?”