Buying My Forever Wife novel Chapter 578

But every morning, she woke to an empty screen, the silence breaking her heart all over again.

This suffocating routine dragged on.

It went on for so long that Ivy lost track of the months.

It felt as though Alaric had entirely erased her from his existence.

He had never replied to a single message she sent.

Eventually, she stopped sending them.

Until one night, months later.

A vicious, tearing agony ripped through Ivy's abdomen. She thrashed on the bed in sheer agony, screaming weakly toward the door.

It felt like an eternity before Toby finally burst into the room.

Seeing his sister drenched in cold sweat, her face as pale as a corpse, he panicked and rushed to her bedside.

"Ivy! What's happening?"

Clinging to him like a lifeline, Ivy forced the words out through ragged breaths.

"Call an ambulance... Grab the hospital bag I packed in the closet... Come with me. The baby is coming."

The pain was blinding.

She wasn't due yet.

She was going into premature labor.

"Wait, what?!"

Toby's eyes bugged out, staring in utter shock at her rounded stomach.

"You're pregnant?! Since when?! Why didn't I know?!"

She had been living here for months, but she always wore massive, oversized clothes.

He hadn't suspected a thing.

Snapping out of his shock, Toby didn't waste another second and dialed 911.

While they waited for the ambulance, Ivy felt like her body was being ripped in half. She gripped Toby's wrist with terrifying strength and gave him her final instructions.

"Toby... if I die on that operating table... call the very first number in my contacts. Tell him to come get the baby."

"But if I survive... you tell absolutely no one. I will raise my child on my own."

Ivy felt a warm gush of fluid between her legs.

She couldn't tell if it was amniotic fluid or blood.