The Billionaire's Ex-Wife Returns (Lucy and Landon) novel Chapter 22

Chapter 22: Sweet Angel

Behind the glass door was an incubator where an infant lay with closed eyes. The nurse beside it waved at Lucy and mouthed some words. But Lucy couldn’t even bother to figure out what she was saying as she couldn’t believe her eyes.

She hurriedly turned to Vanessa as tears gathered in her eyes. Her hands shook as she sought verification of her suspicion.

When Vanessa nodded to confirm the unsaid words, Lucy lost it. She pressed herself on the glass, feeling its cold and hard surface. She wished it would disappear so she could touch the baby.

Tears fell from her eyes, and her lips shook as she fought to speak.

"Is that... is that really my baby?" Lucy whimpered.

Vanessa nodded, crying with her. "Yes, Lucy."

Her legs suddenly lost their strength to continue standing. With Vanessa supporting her by the arm, Lucy looked at her child inside the incubator.

"Calm down," Vanessa said as she pulled up Lucy.

"That’s right... Why is there only one?" Lucy noticed something was wrong, and the joy she felt just now was blocked. A horrible premonition entered her mind, which she quickly turned away. "Where’s the other one? I clearly remembered I should’ve given birth to twins, Vanessa."

Vanessa lowered her head with a grim look on her face. Although Lucy already had the answer to her question, she couldn’t wrap her mind around it.

"Vanessa, why aren’t you speaking? Where’s my other baby?"

"Lucy, calm down first. I have to tell you something, but don’t panic."

But she was already feeling horrible inside.

She grabbed Vanessa’s arm and anxiously said, "Vanessa, please just tell me the truth!"

Seeing her trembling like a leaf, Vanessa knew that Lucy was starting to have a meltdown once again. She couldn’t have her friend collapse again, so she brought Lucy to a bench nearby.

Once they were seated, Vanessa didn’t speak immediately and let Lucy calm down a bit. Then, once Lucy was no longer panicking, she finally told her what had happened two days ago.

On the day Lucy was being operated on, Vanessa arrived in time to hear what the doctors were going to do to her. As soon as she heard they would remove both her uterus and babies from Lucy’s body, Vanessa was quick to stop their plans.

Even though Vanessa wanted Lucy to survive and she would choose her best friend over anything, she understood that Lucy wanted her children to survive no matter what. And Lucy would hate her forever if she took that choice away from her.

Thus, against all odds and taking the risk of making a scene at the hospital, Vanessa pleaded for them to save Lucy and her children.

It was fortunate that a doctor who was listening to Vanessa’s cries stopped the operation on Lucy before they could get started.

But because the cancer inside Lucy was rapidly spreading out in an alarming state, the operation could not be postponed.

"The doctor who helped me said he’d save you and the babies. He kept his promise... but the risk was too high and only one of the babies survived."

Vanessa paused long enough for Lucy to take all her words in.

And when Lucy did not respond, she continued, "You had two operations, Lucy. They had to take your uterus and ovaries because they wouldn’t function anymore and if they stayed inside you, you would’ve died... I can’t have that. I can’t let you die."

Lucy listened to her for a long time.

A piece of her heart cracked as she thought of the child whom she had just lost. She wanted to scream so badly and despair over the loss of her child, but she held it in.

"Can you..." Lucy released a shaky breath. "Can I see my baby?"

Vanessa looked at her and nodded as tears dropped down her cheeks.

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