“Shannah,” he said softly, “thank you for giving me an heir. I’m going to reward you well.”
Blood was soaking through my clothes, spreading across the marble floor. I sobbed as I turned to his men still posted around the hall, begging them through gritted teeth.
“Please… take me to the hospital. My babies… please save them…”
Just then, Terese, my mother-in-law, rushed in. Her eyes swept across the bloodstained floor, then landed on me—drenched in amniotic fluid and reeking of blood. Her face turned ghost-white at the sight.
“What are you all waiting for?!” she screamed. “Get her to the hospital now! If anything happens to my grandchildren, I swear, I won’t let any of you off the hook!”
Finally, they rushed me to the hospital.
But once we got there… No doctor showed up.
Terese’s fury erupted. She stormed through the hospital halls, demanding to know what happened to the medical team that had been assigned to me.
Zareena’s POV
The nurses looked troubled, clearly caught in a bind.
“Ma’am,” one of them said cautiously, “all the doctors in the city have been called to Edison by Sir Sullivan. Ma’am Shannah pricked her finger during a blood draw, and Sir Sullivan got worried something might happen… so he had every doctor stand by, just in case.”
She hesitated, then added softly, “Right now… there are no doctors available in Paterson. Not a single one.”
Terese’s face went pale with fury. She started calling her son again and again, her voice shaking with rage.
“This is madness! His wife is in labor, bleeding out, and he calls every doctor in the city away just to fuss over his mistress? Does he even care if his wife dies?!”
By the tenth call, Sullivan finally picked up, his voice cold and laced with impatience.
“What do you want, Mom? Don’t tell me she’s stirring up more drama and dragging you in to back her up.”
But Terese wasn’t having it. She shouted into the phone, her voice cracking with urgency.
“Your wife’s barely conscious from blood loss! The baby’s already in distress—it’s not getting enough oxygen! And you—you took all the doctors! Are you trying to kill them?”
There was a pause. Then came his low, sarcastic laugh.
“Oh please. Did she tell you to call me? She already gave birth yesterday. Now she’s pretending she’s still in labor? What a joke.”