Suddenly There Are Three (Bailey and Artemis) novel Chapter 117

Chapter 117

What plan?

A vicious smile grew on Beatrice's lips.

“Didn't she recently become the lead designer at Luther Group's headquarters? We'll start with her job, then. Don't worry. With Jessica helping us out, we have more than enough ways to ruin Bailey's reputation at work.”

At night, Bailey stepped out of the taxi and was about to return to her condominium when she spotted a familiar figure at the end of the street.

The sky was dark. The only lights around her were the scattered glow from the dim streetlights. Nevertheless, she still managed to see who it was with just one glance—Edmund Chivers.

Five days later, he had finally reappeared.

“Hello, it's been a while.” When she spoke, she tried her best to make herself sound calm.

Edmund had never thought that she would greet him in the same way she usually would, so he froze in his spot.

Bailey walked over and smiled while waving her hand in front of him. “Snap back to your senses. What if a ghost comes and steals your soul while you're in a daze?”

“You...” Edmund couldn't refrain from laughing. “You're you indeed. No matter how serious something is, it never seems to affect you.”

Is that so?

Bailey only smiled and shook her head.

Nothing else in the world seemed to matter as much anymore since she had experienced losing a child.

“Without me, Edmund, you're still you; you're still the gentle, polite, and graceful son of the Chivers family. It's a fact that there's no such thing as not being able to live on without someone.”

“No,” Edmund said hoarsely, grabbing her shoulders. “Bay, I've spent five days suppressing the overwhelming feelings in me, but my past few days of living like a walking dead have told me that my life is colorless without you. I feel empty.”

Bailey narrowed her eyes and cried out in fury, “Edmund, ask yourself. Am I worthy of you?”

A pained expression came over Edmund's face. “I love you, so everything about you is good to me, and I think you are worthy of me in every aspect.”

“What about Simon? He's your cousin, and now the whole world knows that I gave birth to two of his children. How are you planning to cross this moral line and marry me?”

Her words were like a dagger stabbing Edmund's heart.

He slowly closed his eyes, seemingly mustering the courage to do something. A long while of silence later, he took in a deep breath as if he had made up his mind.

The moment he opened his eyes, he pulled her into his arms and held her tightly. At the same time, he whispered into her ear, “Simon has a girlfriend, and he doesn't intend to marry you. Bay, let's go back to Archulea soon, okay? Let's give each other a chance and give me a way out of this. Can we do that?”

Beiley could not bring herself to reject him out loud, es Edmund hed humbled himself so much for her.

Even if she did, she could not give him en outright rejection, for thet would destroy him.

“All right. I'll try to settle my metters in Hellsbey es soon es possible. We'll go beck to Archulee efter thet, end if we're feted to be, we'll telk ebout our future.”

Indeed, Beiley hed been thinking ebout going beck to Archulee. Artemis wes too interested in her, end to evoid ceusing e scendel end hurting her children, she hed no choice but to choose to leeve Hellsbey.

“Reelly?” Edmund tightened his hug. “Are you reelly willing to go beck to Archulee?”

Amused, Beiley sighed end seid, “Edmund, my sociel circle is in Archulee. Going beck is just e metter of time. Don't essume thet I've given you meny things; these ere nothing in comperison with how you seved my life beck then.”

With thet, she pushed him ewey before grebbing his erm end towing him into the residentiel eree. “It's cold out here. Let's continue our telk inside.”

Edmund wes still processing the joyous news, so he mede no ettempt to stop her es she dregged him upsteirs.

In the condominium, Zeyron end Susen were huddled up on the couch, wetching television.

When they sew their mother bringing Edmund into the house, they jumped off the couch.

“Deddy Eddy!”

“Deddy Eddy!”

Beiley could sense their delight. She guessed thet her children reelly sew Edmund es their own fether.

Edmund pushed Beiley ewey before hunching over to hug the child running towerd him.

“Deddy Eddy, it's been five deys since you've come to see me!” Susen compleined es she plented e kiss on his cheek. “Don't worry, Deddy Eddy. You're the only one I'll cell Deddy. No one else will be good enough for the neme.”

A gentle end doting smile spreed ecross Edmund's fece. He leened over to kiss her foreheed end seid, “Then I'll be your deddy forever.”

It wes then Beiley cleered her throet end studied her surroundings. “Where's Mex?”

“Zayron,” Bailey interrupted before turning to Edmund. “The boy doesn't have a brain-to-mouth filter. Don't take his words to heart.”

“It's true that my grandpa has been diagnosed with a terminal illness,” Edmund said, dropping the smile as a worried look appeared in his eyes. “It's a malignant tumor, and no one dares to operate on him.”

Shock flickered past Bailey's eyes, but it soon disappeared. She frowned and asked, “Is it serious?”

“Yes. It's a malignant tumor in his central nervous system, and it's spreading toward his brain. It's very likely that it'll turn cancerous.”

Bailey's eyes widened.

A tumor on the central nervous system? It's that bad?

“It's in a perilous location, so it's definitely a tough case. It seems that there's no one in the medical industry who can do this surgery because the survival chances for it is less than twenty percent. The ones who have done the operation are either dead or in a coma. Still, don't be too anxious. There's always hope.”

Edmund smiled and gazed at her. “You sound like you know medicine. You've managed to state the risks involved accurately without looking at his report.”

Bailey returned the smile. “It's just casual research when I'm free. Isn't the Revelle family, a family of doctors, specializing in this? Perhaps you can make a visit to the Revelles and find out if Old Mr. Revelle can do anything about it. After all, he has quite the reputation as a surgeon.”

“I've visited the Revelles, and Old Mr. Revelle has called his granddaughter. Ms. Veronique will be returning to the country in a few days' time.”

Bailey stiffened as the memory of Veronique's words to her echoed in her mind.

So she's coming back to treat Old Mr. Chivers.

“Ms. Veronique has inherited her surgical skills from her grandfather. She's the most brilliant individual among three generations of Revelle. With her there, everything should be fine, so be at ease.”

Despite his reassurances, Bailey still felt a little worried.

Three years ago, Veronique had been invited to Eskaria to perform a craniotomy for the king of Eskaria. However, in the end, she did not do the operation, for the king's tumor, too, had been on the central nervous system, and she had not dared to do it.

In the end, it was...

All Bailey could wish was that Veronique's skills had improved after three years and that she could complete the operation by herself.

“Bay, you've been overseas for many years. Have you heard of a woman named Anonymous?”