A doctor in white coat rushed over and said, “The Dean said that we can’t proceed abortion surgery for anyone!” At the meanwhile, he intended to enter the operation theatre to bring Jenny Andrews out but with only one step ahead he was stopped by James Yard.
“Please wait for a moment, there is a patient inside.”
“The Dean instructed me to stop all the abortion surgery immediately! It seems like it is under the order of the Quarrington family!”
“…” James frowned when the name of “Harold Quarrington” flashed out of his mind. He knew that this was not going to be easy.
“The Quarrington family isn’t someone easy to mess with, we have to notify the doctors inside the theatre to stop the surgery right now.”
“Alright, I will take care of that, you may leave first, I will inform them regarding this matter. Leave it to me.” said Dr James with a smile on his face.
The doctor nodded without any doubts and said, “Alright then, please help me to inform them, I will go off first.”
“Alright.” replied Dr James.
He smirked when the doctor walked off. No one could take Jenny away from him! Never ever! As things had come to this far, there was no way he could turn back, so did Jenny.
…
The car speeded across the wide road and disappeared in a glimpse of eyes. It was supposed to be one hour drive but it had now shortened to merely twenty minutes. Harold Quarrington felt uneasy and worried, he called the Department of Gynecology straight away, “Do your department happened to have a woman called Jenny Andrews who will go through abortion surgery today?!”
The person in charge recognized Harold Quarrington’s voice and changed her attitude instantly and says, “Please hang on for a moment, I will need to verify it.”
“Stop all the abortion surgery immediately! Right now! “, Harold showed no more patience and raised up his tone.
“Noted, Mr Quarrington, I will check with them ASAP.” She replied in a respectful tone.
There was no way he would let Jenny get an abortion. He would not allow this to happen.
He stepped on the accelerator harshly. The car entered the corner at 40 degree angle at high speed, the cornering force lifted the car causing it to slide sideways through the turn when it braked, he then followed by counter-steering, raising the front of the car. By using the convex mirror at the inner side of the corner as center point, the rear of the car swept across as if the car was rotating.
While driving with such proficient drifting skills, the high speed was not enough to suppress the anxiety within him.
The car tyres rubbed against the road surface producing a screeching sound, the blue smoke emitted from the rear of the car and the pungent burning rubber smell lingered in the air. The car stopped right in front of the entrance of the hospital. He then rushed into the hospital and shouted at the nurse desperately. “Where is Jenny Andrews?! Where is she?!”
“Sir, please calm down, I will check it right away.” The young and fresh nurse was frightened by him as she had never seen such crazy patient’s family. She then hastily went through the patient’s data and said, “Sir, she is at Operation Theatre No. 2, walk straight in front…”
He seemed like cannot hear the words behind, right after he knew that Jenny Andrews was still inside the operation theatre, he had an ominous feeling about it. He never thought that the hospital would dare to ignore his instruction. The moment he hurried to the operation theatre, these three words, “OPERATION IN PROGRESS”, came into his sight. It was too late, he couldn’t make it on time. He felt like something was pulling off from his body, a chill hit the bottom of his heart.
He diverted his attention to Dr James Yard. He could no longer suppress his anger as he believed that Dr James was the one who was behind the scene. He tugged Dr James’s collar and said, “Didn’t I already ask to stop Jenny’s surgery? Why is she still in surgery?”
Dr James Yard struggled to break through his restraints and tidied up his collar. “Jenny was forced to be with you from the beginning, the child will only bring her unnecessary bonding.”
“What did you say?! How dare you?!” Harold again grabbed on Dr James’s collar and stroked a punch toward his face. Fresh blood leaked out from Dr James’s lips.
He swiped away the blood on his lips and refuted, “It is useless to hit me! I am doing it for Jenny’s sake. Since you have decided to marry Torah, then she has nothing to do with you! I will protect Jenny from now on.”
Dr James didn’t inform the doctors inside the theatre about the cancellation of the surgery as he promised because he knew that he couldn’t keep the child, if the child was born, Jenny Andrews could never get rid of Andrews family and Harold Quarrington, most importantly Jenny would never truly belong to him.
Even if he knew that Jenny might hate him for the rest of her life, he had no regrets. He had loved her for so many years and he was about to succeed to be with Jenny…
He knew that the child would only drag Jenny back to the abyss. He couldn’t let all his effort gone in to vain.
They stared at each other with burning fury, every single exchange of eyesight was like shooting millions of arrows towards their fatal spots.
“James Yard! Who give you the right to kill my child?! You will pay back for this……” Harold again ripped Dr James’s collar and swung his fist towards him.
Dr James failed to dodge Harold’ punch, he was slammed towards the wall and fell on the ground. Instead of being irritated, Dr James laughed out loud and said, “I don’t need any right from anyone. Just because I love her and without the child she can marry me. You are just fooling around with her. You can’t give her anything at all and yet you still want to dominate her!”
“Shut up! Who said I can’t give her anything?!” Dr James’s words hit the soft spot of Harold. Harold didn’t want to accept the fact that he was torturing Jenny for this whole time. The air was filled with bloodlust, shrouding the room with queer atmosphere.
At that moment, the light of the operation theatre went off and the door was opened. Jenny Andrews, who was still in coma state, was slowly pushed out from the operation theatre. She looked pale with no trace of blood on her face. Her forehead was sweating and her eyebrows were knitting, this made her looked even vulnerable. She then slowly gained her conscious and she was startled by the bloody fighting scene between Harold and Dr James.
“What…are you guys… doing?” Jenny spent almost all of her strength to squeeze out a few words.
Harold walked towards Jenny, he glared at her desperately, “Why did you take away our children? Why?! Why can’t you just wait a little bit longer! Even for a day. No, even just half a day…… Why?! ” Thousands of words had reached Jenny’s mouth, but she remained silent, stream of tears rolling down her cheeks even she tried to suppress.
Dr James crawled up from the ground, stumbled to reach Jenny Andrews.
He squatted slowly towards her and wiped off the sweats on her forehead. His heart ached, he gazed at her gently and murmured, “Don’t cry, Jenny… It hurts me so much when I see you crying… Everything is over.”
Harold couldn’t utter a word when he saw the interaction between Dr James and Jenny. He had put so much effort all this time to keep her safe.
He thought everything would go as he planned but he ended up losing Jenny and even their children. He was frustrated and at the edge of outbreaking, but seeing Jenny’s current frail stage, he just couldn’t do that. He realized that what Dr James said was right, he had no one to blame for this unexpected outcome but himself. He thought that diverting everyone’s attention to Torah Andrews would keep Jenny safe but he was wrong.
“Jenny… If you come with me, we can start all over again…”