Twins in Her Womb (Bianca and Luke Crawford novel) novel Chapter 1457

"Ms. Craw, what color do you see in front of you?" Dr. Thomason kept the bronze medallion away and asked.

"Red…" Luca replied softly. Her eyes were closed.

"What is this red thing then? Is it a wall, or…" Dr. Thomason continued to ask guiding questions.

"Blood… so much blood…" Luca replied. She was unconscious.

Some members of the audience exclaimed in surprise.

Dr. Thomason remained composed. He continued asking, "Imagine stepping past this curtain of blood. What else do you see?"

Luca was silent for the next half a minute as though mentally traveling beyond the curtain of blood. She spoke slowly, "I see… a man… and four children."

Dr. Thomason continued, "That's the main cause of your stress in your daily life. Can you see the man's face clearly?"

"Mm," Luca replied uneasily. Her hands slowly clenched into fists.

"And that man is…" Dr. Thomason asked.

Luca paused for a while and replied, "He is the man I love…"

"And the children?" Dr. Thomason could tell that Luca was unwilling to talk about the man, so he shifted the topic.

"They're… the people I love…" Luca said.

"What are they doing?" Dr. Thomason continued asking.

"They… look very sad. I'm… also very sad. One of them is a little girl wrapped in iron chains. I want to save her…" Luca said haltingly.

Dr. Thomason exchanged glances with his assistant, then continued asking, "Is the man your husband? Who else is he? And those children, whose children are they?"

This time, Luca did not answer. She jolted awake as though she had suffered a huge fright.

Dr. Thomason did not expect that Luca would regain control of her consciousness from that question. In any case, he did not want the live demonstration to drag on for too long. After Luca stood up, he began his analysis. "Luca saw a wall of blood, which means that she is subconsciously afraid of blood. The people she saw must be somehow related to her as well."

A man in the audience raised his hand and asked, "Usually, what kind of relationship would it be?"

"Usually, they'll have an intimate relationship with the patient. In the demonstration earlier, Ms. Craw said that the people she saw were those whom she loved. I'm guessing that they must have done something to cause Ms. Craw agony, but of course, that's a preliminary guess. You may return to your seat, Ms. Craw," Dr. Thomason said.

Luca's face was still pale. The scenes from the hypnosis session were still fresh in her mind. She nodded, stepped off the stage, and returned to her seat.

If she had not snapped herself out of the hypnosis in time, she might have divulged that the man was Luke Crawford.

She realized that she was placed in a perilous situation earlier. Even though Dr. Thomason was wrong in his analysis, she did not correct him.

After Dr. Thomason watched Luca return to her seat, he continued his lecture. The hypnotherapy session had failed earlier, and he had to find an explanation for it. "Everyone here knows that my hypnotherapy sessions guide the patient to face their fears directly because that's the most effective way of treatment. In the session earlier, I've shown Ms. Craw the source of her stress. Next, I shall continue with my elaboration."

Nina saw that Luca's face was pale. She asked out of concern, "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine," Luca said and nodded.

Nina reached out, held her hands, and said nothing.

What they did not know was that Luke was sitting in the last row of the hall. He had seen Luca's reactions throughout the hypnotherapy session.

He had come to the conference, but not together with Tia.