Love After Marriage: Mr. Lancaster's Hidden Wife novel Chapter 161

Although Jacqueline was very dissatisfied with his cold attitude toward her, she could only brush it off with her own purpose in mind. "I'm sorry Henry, I heard everything from my dad. He kidnapped Miss Frey and even... I'm sorry, I'm the reason that your child is gone..." she cried.

Henry tightened his grip on the phone, "Did you call m e just to say that?"

Jacqueline cried so hard. "I just want to apologize to you and Miss Frey. I really have no idea why things turned out this way..."

"Are you done?" Henry asked.

Jacqueline froze for a moment, suddenly at a loss for words.

That was quite an unexpected reaction from him.

She apologized and even cried so hard. Shouldn't he b e comforting her?

Henry didn't know what was going through Jacqueline's mind. He just continued speaking in an indifferent one, "If you're done then go rest up. I'll hang up now."

He ended the call and dropped the phone on the seat next to him.

The driver, Joe, heard the noise and stole a glance in the rearview mirror. He didn't dare to speak, but he felt very sorry for Yvonne.

He really didn't expect something like that would happen to her or the fact that the Conrads would bring themselves to do something like that either.

Joe even wondered if Mr. Lancaster would take revenge on the Conrads this time. He reckoned that he probably would since this involved his own child.

"Mr. Lacanster, shall we go to the hospital?" Joe gathered his thoughts and asked softly.

Henry snapped back to his senses and recalled the wound on Yvonne's stomach. He pursed his thin lips and said, "Yes."

"Okay," Joe responded and silently accelerated the car.

Henry lowered his gaze at the woman in his arms, with deep guilt swimming in his eyes.

He could imagine how she would react when she woke up. Maybe she would blame him or hate him.

No matter which it was, he would accept it. Whatever he owed her, he would definitely make up to her!

It didn’t take too long before they arrived at the hospital.

While they were on the way, Joe had already called Shane and asked him to arrange an operating room.

Shane did as instructed and then went on waiting at the hospital door, wondering what just happened.

The sight of Henry getting out of the car carrying an unconscious woman shocked him. He quickly went u p to him. "Henry, what happened to her?"

Henry didn't answer his question but laid Yvonne on the hospital bed and followed the nurses to the operating room.

Shane had no other choice but to find out the truth from Joe.

Joe hesitated but still told Shane the incident in the end.

The story left Shane speechless for a long time before he stormed off to find Henry.

He grabbed the man who was waiting outside the operating room by his collar and questioned him loudly, "Tell me, Henry, how do you plan on dealing with this matter?"

Henry merely stared at the operating room's door and didn't make any response.

That pissed off Shane even more. "Henry, are you listening to me?"

“I heard you. I'll shoulder the responsibility for everything," Henry pulled his collar out of Shane's grip and replied coldly.

Shane was dumbstruck by his answer. "You'll shoulder the responsibility for everything? In other words, you’re planning to defend the Conrads?”

Henry fell silent.

Shane knew that it was a silent admission. The expression on his face instantly turned ugly. "Henry, are you out of your mind? Do you know what you are doing? The Conrads kidnapped your wife and forcibly took her bone marrow. They even killed your child. Yet you still choose to defend them?”

"I know what I'm doing. My mind is extremely clear. If I don’t do this, Jackie will do foolish things to herself," Henry said in a low voice.

Shane reacted as though he had just heard the joke of the century. "She'd do foolish things? You're the only one who would believe that. Henry, have you ever considered how unfair your decision to protect the Conrads is to Yvonne? Her bone marrow was taken against her will and she lost her child in the process. D o you know how much despair she'll be in when she wakes up?"

"I know."

Henry looked at him. His thin lips moved slightly as h e tried to say something, but realized that he couldn't find his voice.

Shane sneered coldly at him. "Henry, you really have a heart made of stone!" 1

After saying that, the doctor turned around and walked away from him.

Henry stood rooted to the spot in a daze for a while. When he finally regained his senses, he quickly went t o Yvonne's ward and stayed by her side for several hours.

When Yvonne woke up, she found herself in another new location but was no longer surprised. She didn't even care where she was anymore.

She couldn't feel anything aside from the grief of losing her child.

The thought of the fetus that had only been in her womb for two months left her in tears again.

It was her sobbing that startled Henry awake from his sleep. A happy look flashed across the man's eyes when he saw Yvonne who had woken up.

"You're awake,” he said hoarsely.

Yvonne's sobbings immediately ceased when she heard his voice. She turned around to look at him with hatred-filled eyes.

It was so intense that it even startled Henry for a moment.

She hated him?

He did expect that she would blame him when she woke up, but he never thought that she would hate him!

But of course, it was only natural for her to hate him after going through something like that.

"Are you thirsty?" Henry asked softly.

Yvonne continued staring at him intently without speaking.

Henry didn't bother to repeat his question. He just got up and poured her a glass of water. Seeing that she was lying down, he thoughtfully put a straw in the glass before offering it to her. "Have some water.”

Yvonne turned her face away and rejected his kindness. "Why are you doing this?" she asked coldly.