Antonio finished the sentence and left.
He didn’t know where the discomfort was coming from, but it was uneasy, and he drove the car as fast as he could the whole way, calling Katarina halfway, but no one answered, which made him even more anxious.
As he approached the hospital, a familiar car brushed past him and he drove a little too fast, so he paid no more attention to it and parked just below the hospitalization wing and quickly entered the building.
As there was no one in the ward and the bed had been removed, Antonio immediately guessed that perhaps Kimberly’s condition had deteriorated and rushed quickly to the operating room, where indeed, outside the OR, he saw Katarina, curled up in a ball, crouched against the wall, arms wrapped around herself….
Antonio’s heart shrank, when had Katarina ever shown herself so vulnerable, not even when she misunderstood him and Adriana, she made such a scruffy face….
It was only when she came closer that he realized she was holding the phone in her hand….
Why aren’t you answering the phone?
-Katarina…
Antonio knelt down and reached out his hand to raise it when the door to the operating room opposite opened and Katarina pushed his hand away, straightened up and rushed over to her, anxiously grabbing the arm of the first doctor who came out.
-Doctor, how is my father?
Antonio also rushed over.
The doctor removed his mask and shook his head.
-We did what we could, and from now on we will have to rely on instruments to maintain vitals, and it would be a relief for Mr. Martinez to give up.
What…
Katarina lost consciousness and fainted, before losing consciousness she felt Antonio holding her, she tried to free herself but she had no strength to do it….
Katarina had a long and cloudy dream, an incredibly heavy dream, with her father, her mother and Antonio, with many moments that before had seemed beautiful to her, but in this dream, they all became bitter….
He knew perfectly well that he was dreaming, but still he was reluctant to wake up, to wake up and face the result that his father would never be the same again, to wake up and face the call….
No wonder, no wonder Antonio didn’t touch her before they got married and after they got married, it’s not that he didn’t touch her, it’s that he was afraid?
Half brother and half sister?
This kind of drama, which only happens on TV, really happened to her….
-Katarina, daddy is awake.
Antonio’s voice suddenly reached her ears and Katarina’s eyes snapped open, the room was in semi-darkness with the curtains drawn, but she still saw Antonio’s face full of worry looking at her….
-I’ve been calling you for a long time and you haven’t moved, so I really must say that daddy is awake to help…..
Antonio’s tone is, as always, slightly affectionate….
Katarina looked away, pulled up the blankets and prepared to go downstairs. The moment she stood up, her feet faltered and she almost fell down, trapped in Antonio’s arms.
-Take it easy, you haven’t eaten all day and you are weak, they sent me some food from home….
Katarina unconsciously looks at the gap in the curtains, it’s dark and she has really slept for so long….
Feeling pain on the back of her hand, she unconsciously lifted her hand to look at it and realized that it had needle holes, and looked at him anxiously, her voice hoarse as she asked.
-What did the doctor inject me with?
Antonio was a bit puzzled, but explained it to her anyway.
-The doctor said you should have fainted from a low blood sugar combined with a momentary stimulus, so he gave you a glucose injection, what happened?
Katarina relieved about the glucose, that shouldn’t matter?
Then, with a strong surge of sadness growing in her heart, she broke away from his embrace and prepared to leave.
-Katarina.
Antonio hugged her from behind.
-Katarina, get ready, dad’s situation is not good.
Katarina nodded awkwardly, pushed his hand away, opened the door and stepped out.
Antonio knew he had Kimberly on his mind, so even though it seemed like she was being weird, he didn’t think much of it and followed her.
It turns out that when Antonio said he was awake, he was really just awake, with Kimberly’s eyes open, hooked up to a respirator, staring at the ceiling….
-Daddy…
Katarina looked at him and blushed, taking his hand.
But Kimberly did not respond at all, the sounds of the instruments around her showed a normal pulse, a normal heartbeat and nothing else….
Groveling, Antonio explained.
-The doctor said Dad may still be conscious, alone, unable to speak or express himself…..
The doctors did not know that Kimberly was irritated and merely assumed that the complications had worsened and the already too-fragile blood vessels had occurred, which was not unexpected.
Katarina was so confused at the time that she didn’t even know when Fabiana took advantage of the chaos and left, and even now she is still in a state of confusion, which is why no one has mentioned that Fabiana came to….
Now the conspiracy is that the caretaker was paid by Fabiana a long time ago, just waiting for the opportunity to come in and irritate her father when everyone left, she was wearing the caretaker’s clothes and it seems that the caretaker came out a bit on the pretext of changing her in….
The doormen never caught anyone suspicious and let their guard down, letting her in easily….
Katarina’s fists clenched tightly, Fabiana!
If it hadn’t been for her, my father wouldn’t have ended up in this situation!
She hates him so much!
But right now, it’s not the time to get carried away, there are some things she has to sort out first…..
The Carballo family maid brought dinner and put it on the table.
Kimberly can no longer chew due to this unexpected incident and the doctor has told her that she will be receiving nutrients intravenously for the next two days, followed by nasal feedings, which involves inserting a catheter into the stomach and injecting food and water through the tube to maintain nutrition.
Neither Katarina nor Antonio could simply abandon Kimberly, who clearly had a sense of survival and should not have been abandoned.
-Mr. Antonio, Miss, tonight’s food was cooked by Madame herself for you to eat all of it.
The maid who brought the food smiled as she finished and withdrew.
-Katarina, let’s eat first….. By the way, where is the caretaker, why did I call her and tell her you fired her?
Antonio didn’t dwell on that, he just asked nonchalantly, she was just a caretaker, she must have something, that’s why Katarina fired her, tomorrow she will hire another one.
He spoke habitually as he reached for her shoulder to take her to the table to eat, but Katarina turned around and avoided him.
Fired?
It’s just that you don’t have the face to stay here either, do you?
Without speaking, Katarina took a seat at the table.
Looking at the dinner for three, Katarina grew increasingly saddened that her father had accompanied her to dinner the night before, and kept putting her favorite food on her plate, a scene that would never be repeated again….
Forcing back tears with all her might, she looked at the food, she was now two years old and needed to be fed….
Thinking about the child she carried in her belly made Katarina’s feelings even heavier and more complicated. She hated herself for waiting for that child when she was in such a situation….
Close relatives…
She dared not think about it, but the thought of taking him out of her made her heart ache beyond words….
Antonio looked at her raised hand, repressed the loss that surged in his heart, sat down across from her, poured soup and pushed it in front of her, then took another bowl and poured rice, then pushed all her favorite dishes in front of her, and to top it all off, pushed a fully formed chicken thigh into her bowl.
Katarina watched him do this and made it even more difficult….
Grab a spoon and drink your soup.
Even though his heart was stuck and his brain was in turmoil, he was very hungry. It turned out that her pregnancy symptoms were like this: gluttony, drowsiness and obviously no appetite at all, but once the food reached her mouth, she couldn’t help but take a bite.
Antonio saw that she had a good appetite and even gobbled down the chicken thigh, so he was relieved and gave her his.
-Mom does it better, doesn’t she? Here, I’ll give you mine.
In a cuddly tone, Katarina felt her nose tingle as she took the chicken thigh and nibbled on it.
Antony’s heart shrank a few moments later.
Suddenly Katarina’s cell phone rang, a video call.
He knew it had been his mother who had dialed him.
He knew that sooner or later his mother would have to find out about his father, but it was better to keep it to herself for a while, even if it meant letting her sleep in peace tonight.
She walked over to the bed first and saw that her father had his eyes closed before she picked up the phone and, in the cheeriest voice possible, picked up the video and appeared on the screen with her father, letting him appear for only a few seconds before turning away from the camera and pointing it only at her.
-Mom, you called at a bad time. Dad is already asleep.
Marisa looked at her husband on the video, a few seconds in, still seeing him clearly, and his face, still smiling, slowly broke down.
Kimberly a little change, she can see it, it is, clearly, more serious…