Capital City, the Rhodes residence.
In the dead of night, Xavier Rhodes jolted awake from a dream and grabbed his phone to answer the call.
The moment he pressed it to his ear, he heard Toby's frantic sobbing.
"Xavier, please save Ivy! She's dying, please save her!"
Xavier's eyes flew open, and he sat bolt upright, demanding into the receiver,
"Ivy? What happened to her?"
Toby choked out his words through his tears.
"Ivy was pregnant and didn't tell anyone, but she's going into labor now. She's losing so much blood. She even gave me her last words. I'm so scared she's going to die on the operating table."
"Xavier, can you please get the best doctors for her? You have to save her life."
Xavier was stunned.
Ivy had been pregnant this whole time and kept it a secret?
No wonder she had been entirely off the grid lately. Even on the rare occasions he ran into Alaric, the man had been completely unapproachable.
Had the two of them split up without Alaric even knowing about the baby?
There was no time to overthink it. Xavier threw off his covers and started getting dressed while comforting Toby.
"Alright, I'll handle it right now. Send me the hospital's address. I'll head over as fast as I can, so don't panic."
This was a matter of life and death. He couldn't care less about his previous promise to Alaric to stay away from Ivy.
After everything Ivy had done, being there for his sister growing up, he had to intervene.
Fully dressed, Xavier was already barking orders into his phone as he strode out the door.
Thanks to his swift coordination of resources, they managed to secure an emergency blood transfusion for Ivy's severe postpartum hemorrhage, narrowly averting a complete tragedy.
The baby was delivered.
But neither mother nor daughter was in good shape.
Ivy remained unconscious in her hospital bed, while the premature baby, suffering from hypoxia, was rushed straight to the neonatal ICU.
By the time Xavier arrived at the hospital, it was already late morning the following day.
The moment he stepped into the room, he saw Toby sitting by the bed, sobbing softly into his hands.


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