A Woman Worth Billions Dated the Wrong Brother novel Chapter 409

While We Wait

Jason POV

Hospitals were never supposed to hold that many people for one family.

Within an hour, the private waiting area outside the surgical wing was full. Grandmother and Grandfather were there, while Mr. Asher hadn’t moved far from the operating-room doors since Amber disappeared through them. Marcus arrived with Pamela, followed shortly by Noah, Jasmine and Daniel. Mr. Stait came with additional military security, and even the president arrived with a small detail after being informed that someone had managed to poison Amber inside a secured hospital.

Then the children came.

Alice ran toward me the moment she saw me. I barely had time to brace myself before she reached my wheelchair.

“Daddy!”

I caught her carefully and pulled her against me. My body protested immediately, but I didn’t care.

“Hey, princess.”

“Where’s Mommy?”

There it was. The question nobody wanted to answer.

Alex stood behind her, holding Rose’s hand. Iris was beside them, already watching the adults closely enough that

I knew she understood this wasn’t a normal hospital visit.

“She’s with the doctors,” I said.

Alice looked around. “Because of the babies?”

“Yes.”

“Are they coming today?”

My throat tightened. “Yes.”

Her eyes widened. Under any other circumstances, that would have been happy news.

“Can we see them?”

“When the doctors say it’s okay.”

“And Mommy?”

“As soon as we can.”

Alex didn’t ask the easy questions.

“Is she okay?”

I looked at him. He knew. Maybe not everything, but enough to understand that nobody gathered this many people because everything was fine.

“The doctors are taking care of her.”

“That’s not what I asked.”

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Of course it wasn’t.

eached for his hand. “Mommy is very sick right now. Someone put something in her food, and the doctors are helping her and the babies.”

His fingers tightened around mine.

“Someone hurt her?”

“Yes.”

“On purpose?”

I hesitated, and that answered him.

Alex looked down. Alice had gone very quiet against my chest.

“The doctors found it quickly,” I told them. “Mommy pressed the emergency button before she fell asleep, and now there are a lot of people helping her.”

“She fell asleep?” Rose asked.

“Yes.”

“Can they wake her up?”

“They’re trying.”

Iris looked toward the operating-room doors. “And the twins?”

“They’re being born.”

Her face changed.

I couldn’t tell them more than that because I didn’t know more than that.

Grandmother came over and gently took Alice from me when she noticed how pale I’d become. My body had already reached its limit, and my doctor had made it very clear that sitting in a wheelchair outside the surgical wing was the maximum compromise he was willing to make.

I hated the chair, but I hated being alone in that hospital room more.

So I stayed.

The waiting area settled into a strange silence despite being crowded. Pamela sat with the children. Marcus paced until Grandmother threatened to make him sit down. Jasmine had one arm still recovering from the gunshot and looked ready to personally interrogate half the hospital. Noah stayed near her, while Daniel spoke quietly with one of the doctors whenever someone came through the doors.

The president stood with Mr. Stait and Grandfather, speaking in voices too low for the children to hear.

Then I saw Emory near the entrance, speaking with hospital security.

“Emory.”

He looked over.

Mr. Stait followed his gaze toward me, said something to him, and Emory immediately crossed the waiting area.

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He crouched beside my wheelchair.

What do you need?”

“The compounds.”

He understood immediately.

“The hospital’s toxicology department is already running everything.”