Betrayed by the Father Reborn in His Rival's Arms novel Chapter 138

The nurse shook her head again. "I don't know. But she left a letter for whoever came looking for her."

Lucius's eyes lit up. He knew it! Madeline wouldn't just abandon him without a word. The letter definitely had the address of her new hospital.

"Quick, give it to me!" Lucius urged, barely containing his desperate excitement.

The nurse retrieved an envelope and handed it to him.

He ripped it open instantly. In the past, Madeline used to write him countless love letters, many of which he had never even bothered to open.

But today, he couldn't pull the paper out fast enough.

The letter contained exactly two sentences: *"Lucius, our marriage is over. From now on, in sickness and in health, we have nothing to do with each other."*

He stared blankly at the paper in his hands, his mind short-circuiting.

Tears began to spill from his eyes, one drop after another.

If it had been a draft of a divorce agreement, there would at least be room for negotiation. He would have the power to reject it.

But this wasn't a negotiation. It was a unilateral severance. Madeline was obliterating their emotional ties and barring him from ever interfering in her life again.

In a split second, Lucius was crushed by earth-shattering agony.

He let out a guttural, hysterical scream, the sheer weight of his regret plunging him into a darkness so profound that he collapsed and lost consciousness.

The nurse gasped in shock and immediately called the on-duty doctors to resuscitate him. The moment Lucius was revived, he broke down sobbing uncontrollably.

His knuckles were white as he tightly gripped the crumpled letter.

*In sickness and in health, we have nothing to do with each other.*

Every single word felt like a blade twisting into his heart, drawing blood.

Madeline truly didn't want him anymore.

He never imagined reading those words would inflict such unbearable agony.

If he hadn't let Grant manipulate and deceive him, he wouldn't have been so cruel as to force Madeline to surrender her surgeon.

Only now did he realize how utterly despicable he had been to her.

"I don't agree. I will never agree."

"As long as I don't sign, we aren't divorced."

"As long as we're married, there's still a chance for us."

He mumbled to himself while the doctors and nurses stared at him like he was a lunatic.

He scrambled off the hospital bed and bolted out of the building. He had to find Madeline immediately.

He had to track her down and drag himself back to her side. This time, his mind was made up. No matter how hard she pushed him away, he would cling to her. He would never leave her again.

However, even after Lucius tore through every orthopedic hospital in the United States and hired top-tier hackers to infiltrate the national medical registry, he couldn't find a single trace of Madeline's transfer records.

How was this even possible? *How?*

Like a man possessed, Lucius scoured every premium orthopedic center in the country. He convinced himself that her transfer was a coordinated evasion tactic planned with Dr. Dyson to stop him from interfering over Liliana. Driven by this theory, he personally raided the three hospitals affiliated with Dyson.

As he sped past Dr. Herbort's private clinic, his phone rang.