Ernest felt as if his whole heart was being scrunched, and it hurt badly.
He took a tissue and kept wiping her sweat, then whispered soothingly, “The doctor will be here soon. Don’t be afraid. I’m here with you.”
Yuna stood stiffly in the doorway, trembling. Her rattled gaze uneasily at Florence, who was lying in the room.
She didn’t expect Florence to suddenly pass out and be in such a bad condition.
But again, it seemed to make sense.
She gritted her teeth and her body shivered.
At that moment, she heard the door open downstairs and saw a middle-aged female doctor in a white coat hurrying in with a medical kit.
Yuna’s breathing became even tenser, and sweat fell from her forehead.
The doctor was here too.
She would be able to see why Florence had suddenly fallen into a coma. By then, she…
Yuna’s body shook even harder.
She hesitated for a couple of seconds and bit her lip tightly, before rushing into the room and falling on her knees.
“Mr. Hawkins, I’m sorry. It was my fault. Ms. Fraser couldn’t actually eat anything for the past few days, and when she did, she occasionally threw up, and her appetite was very bad. But she didn’t let us tell you, so we dared not tell you. I thought she was just losing her appetite and would be fine in a few days. I didn’t expect that… I didn’t expect that she would… would faint.”
Florence was so emaciated that she ended up being unconscious, so the lack of appetite and the fact that she barely ate over the past few days could be the main reason.
Ernest’s gaze at Yuna was like icy blades.
He didn’t expect that these maids would dare disobey his words and keep him from knowing that Florence didn’t eat well and would occasionally throw up.
Damn it!
The fearful hostility emanated from Ernest frightened Yuna even more, and she fell on the floor crying and kowtowing.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry. It’s my fault. Mr. Hawkins, please punish me.”
“Punish you? If anything happens to her, none of you will get away with it.”
Ernest’s voice was cold as hell. If he wasn’t still holding Florence’s hand, he would have stood up and strangled this stupid woman himself.
Yuna was shuddering even intensely.
The middle-aged female doctor walked in hurriedly with her medical kit. No sooner had she entered than she felt a chill breeze hit her face, making her shiver involuntarily.
She froze right at the doorway and was too frightened to enter.
Ernest looked at her with cold eyes and chided impatiently.
“Get your ass in here and see what’s wrong with her.”
Ernest was so hostile that he was almost on the verge of blowing his stack.
The doctor’s legs trembled in fear. She braced herself and walked in, “Yes, I’ll take a look at her right away.”
Staring at the fearsome Ernest and deliberately ignoring the maid who was shivering down on her knees, the doctor was under great pressure as she forced herself to show her expertise and observe Florence’s condition.
From start to finish, Ernest sat on the other side of the bed, held Florence’s hand, and never moved an inch.
His eyes were like X-rays as he watched every move the doctor made.
It was an emergency and he didn’t have time to find a doctor with a clean background from outside. And this doctor was taken from the Turner family.
She was also Theodore’s man.
Theodore had always wanted to hurt Florence, and in this case, he may also have had the doctor do something to Florence.
If something did happen to Florence, the doctor would report it all to Theodore as soon as she went back.
So Ernest would have kept a close eye on her every move to prevent her from harming Florence in any way.
He wouldn’t mind killing the doctor if there was something wrong with Florence’s health.
Although she was scared to death by Ernest’s aura and even felt death beckoning to her, she was a top professional to be in the Turner family.
The doctor examined her but suddenly sighed with relief.
She wiped the sweat o from her forehead, then smiled.
“Mr. Hawkins, congratulations.”
Ernest frowned and looked at her questioningly.
The doctor said with a smile again.
“Ms. Fraser is fine. She’s pregnant.”
Ernest was so stunned that his body stiffened like a log.
His body shivered violently as he looked at Florence, then at the doctor, and asked with great uncertainty.
“Are you telling the truth? Say it again!”
“It’s true. It’s absolutely true. Ms. Fraser is pregnant.”
The words exploded in Ernest’s head like a cannonball. Wise as he was, he was in a state of uttermost ecstasy.
Pregnant?
Florence was pregnant?
She was pregnant with his child!
The overwhelming surprise almost engulfed Ernest. He held Florence’s hand tightly but couldn’t even stop his fingers from trembling and the excitement in his heart.
“Florence, did you hear that?”
“You’re pregnant with our baby.”
“We’re having a little baby. You’re going to be a mother.”
Ernest whispered softly in Florence’s ear. The joy of being a father for the first time made him wild with joy. It was rapture, it was exultation.
The doctor was relieved too. It was a happy news that Florence was pregnant and she wouldn’t be blamed for it.
Even the depressing atmosphere in the room was lifted.
The doctor was emboldened and said with a smile.
“Ms. Fraser’s pregnancy symptoms should have already shown up. During this period, she will become lethargic, have no appetite or appetite, eat less and have emotional ups and downs, and cannot be stimulated. She is not in the best of health and the early stages of pregnancy are very critical. From now on, she’ll have to get well adjusted.”
Hearing this, the delighted smile on Yuna’s face disappeared again.
Curling up on the floor, she cried, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, Mr. Fraser. I was careless. I didn’t know Ms. Fraser was pregnant and I didn’t take good care of her. It was my fault. Please punish me.”
Luckily, the baby was fine, otherwise, she could hardly absolve herself from the blame.
Ernest’s eyes were glued to Florence and he couldn’t take them off her for a second.
He held her hand as tightly as if it meant the world.
He didn’t care about the others, “Go out and wait.”
He did not order the doctor to prescribe medicine for Florence to keep the baby, nor did he punish Yuna.
He just told them all to wait.
The doctor and the maid were worried, but they had to retreat obediently, leaving the room to Ernest and Florence.
The room was quiet.
Ernest sat on the edge of the bed and held Florence’s hand tightly. His twinkling eyes fell slowly on her flat belly.
His eyelid suddenly twitched.
In it his child was conceived.
His and Florence’s child.
He was too happy to know how to react. The wonderful bewilderment hit him all of a sudden.
It took a while before Ernest finally came back to his senses from the great elation and then took out his mobile phone.