Mother and child were connected by heart. I could feel the baby’s heartbeat getting weaker and weaker and the amplitude of the struggle was getting smaller and smaller.
“Chloe, I agree with whatever you say. Save the child first. Doctor Blanton said that the child’s umbilical cord is around the neck and there is a risk of suffocation. It will be too late to wait any longer! Save the child!”
“Shut up!” Chloe scolded, “Doctor Blanton again. I hate old antiques like them the most. They think they are so great after performing a few operations! Is what he said right? Did he see the child? He said nonsense! Isn’t it just to belittle me openly or secretly? I won’t listen to him! There is no such thing as an umbilical cord around the neck. I see that the child is very healthy and has fallen asleep comfortably!”
“Besides, do you think I don’t know what you are planning? When the baby is born, Herman will surely rush in when he hears the baby crying and you can be saved! You finally fell into my hands, how could I let you go easily? I haven’t tortured you enough!”
She smiled grimly, raised the scalpel and cut a hole in my stomach.
I screamed in pain, feeling that my internal organs were cut open by her.
“Who told you to marry Herman without seeing things? Who told you to always say bad things about me to Herman? This is a lesson for you!”
She glared at me fiercely and cut a second layer in my stomach.
I screamed even more heartbreakingly than the last time.
The closer to the internal organs, the more endoneurium was connected, the more intense the pain and I couldn’t stop shaking and screaming.
“Vera, do you know what you deserve? I could have passed my internship! It’s all because of you! It was Herman who believed your bullshit, causing me to lose my performance appraisal and face the risk of being fired! Otherwise, I would have been a regular employee long ago! So you are lying here being punished today, it’s all your fault!”
I remembered that the girl that day was her.
Before I got pregnant, I came to the hospital once because of hypoglycemia and accidentally encountered a workplace bullying scene.
In the stairwell, a girl wearing a mask was wantonly beating another girl with messy hair. I tried to stop her, but she knocked me to the ground with one punch and told me not to meddle in other people’s business.