Billionaire's Match (by Tangy Candy) novel Chapter 1124

Just as Arista tremblingly dialed home, hurried footsteps echoed from the end of the corridor.

"Khloe?"

Arista's eyes flickered. She quickly went forward.

There stood Khloe, arriving in haste with a group of bodyguards behind her.

She moved as if carried by the wind, not even stopping to greet George nearby. Her gaze locked onto the surgical light as she asked at once, "How is Nick?"

Arista froze. For a moment, she didn't know how to answer. She shook her head, tears threatening to fall again.

"He hasn't come out yet."

"He'll be fine." Khloe's voice was low and steady—like she was comforting Arista, or perhaps herself.

Yet her face was completely drained of color. Her hand was clenched so tightly that her knuckles seemed ready to break through her skin.

Arista had a thousand questions she wanted to ask.

But then she noticed Khloe's thick coat—beneath it, she was only wearing a thin nightdress. Clearly, she had rushed over the moment she heard the news.

Arista hesitated.

Khloe had clearly decided to divorce Nick, yet now she looked more concerned about him than anyone.

And her abdomen was already noticeably round. If she truly did this for herself, she shouldn't have come here at all to bear such emotional strain.

Just then, the doors of the operating room opened.

Khloe was the first to react. She rushed straight to the bedside.

Nick was still unconscious, with a respirator attached to him. He looked utterly lifeless.

"Doctor, how is he?" Khloe's eyes never left Nick. Her voice trembled with tension.

"If you're this heartless, able to abandon Nick at a time like this, then from today onward, you are no longer our daughter-in-law. For Nick and the child in your belly's sake, I don't want to make things harder for you, but I hope you never appear in front of Nick or our family again!"

This time, George did not listen to Arista.

Arista looked at Khloe, her shoulders slightly slumped, and all the questions she had been holding back finally spilled out.

"Khloe… do you have some kind of reason you can't tell us? You know you and Nick truly love each other. He's at his weakest right now—he really can't endure this without you. Why are you doing this?"

Khloe lowered her gaze and said nothing for a long moment.

Finally, she spoke softly.

"I'm sorry, Dad. Mom."

"Don't call us that!" George snapped coldly, fury still burning in his chest. He immediately ordered Lenny, "Lenny, see them out! From now on, no irrelevant people are allowed near Nick."