Violette turned to look at the nurse and took the consent form. "Perform the surgery. This child... I don't need it anymore."
She had waited for this child for fifteen years. She found out about her pregnancy today and lost it on the same day.
Hans had always looked forward to this baby coming into their lives. But he wasn't there when this child needed him to save her.
Violette took off her wedding ring and threw it in the trash.
"Okay, we'll perform the surgery immediately, ma'am."
Violette stared at the ceiling of the operating room. Her face was pale, her lips colorless and marked with bite marks because she kept biting them.
The doctors and nurses were busy around her, preparing the equipment for the surgery.
"Mrs. Lombardi, we're about to begin the surgery. We'll give you anesthesia so you won't feel any pain."
"No need. Don't give me anesthesia."
She needed a reminder of when the fully developed fetus was removed from her womb and how Hans was not present.
"Okay, start the operation."
"Yes, doctor."
Violette felt something being pulled out of her body, and the pain grew sharper. She tried not to cry, but her tears could no longer be held back.
"It's over, Mrs. Lombardi. The fetus has been removed."
Violette felt her body go weak, and everything went dark.
Tears streamed from the corners of her eyes.
Violette woke up to the sound of a nurse talking beside her bed.
"... yes, that's what I heard. Mr. Lombardi has been at the hospital since this morning, but he doesn't know that his wife is being treated at the hospital. He is in a VIP room with a woman. I heard that he is at the hospital because his nephew is sick after falling. Mr. Lombardi even called in all the best doctors at the hospital just to treat a child who had only a scratch. "
" I feel so sorry for Mrs. Lombardi. While her husband was taking care of another woman's child, she was waiting for approval for her surgery, but Mr. Lombardi didn't answer her calls. In the end, the baby in her womb couldn't be saved."
"It turns out that the love story of Mrs. and Mr. Lombardi was just a fairy tale. I saw Mr. Lombardi treat a woman named Irene as if she were the apple of his eye."
"Shh, let's go. We can't talk about this. No one can know about Mrs. Lombardi's surgery."
"Yes, we have to leave before Mrs. Lombardi wakes up."