A Love with No Way Back Chapter 2

At the hospital, I lay on a gurney, held down. A nurse plunged a needle into my arm. Blood was drawn, bag after bag. It didn’t hurt, but I felt cold. Outside the door, a doctor’s voice drifted in.

“Mr. Hayes, Mrs. Nicholas’s body is already severely depleted from her two previous miscarriages. Drawing too much blood will be dangerous. Perhaps we could use blood from the blood bank…”

“No. How can we be sure a stranger’s blood is clean? Just draw it. She’s stubborn; she won’t die.”

After 500cc of blood was drawn, my vision blurred, and my lips had turned purple. The nurse urgently stopped, running out to say that should be enough. Finn pushed the door open and came in, instinctively reaching out to touch my forehead. I turned my head away, speaking hoarsely.

“I’m fine. I won’t die.”

He scoffed, withdrawing his hand curtly.

“This is what you owe Hope. Don’t pretend.”

“Didn’t you say you didn’t care? What, knowing she’s pregnant with my child, you can’t keep up the act?”

So, he thought I was jealous, which was why I attacked Hope. I forced a pale smile, looking at him mockingly.

“You’re overthinking it. Even if you have a litter of children with her, I have no right to object, do I?”

His gaze was furious. He gripped my wrist tightly.

“Then why are you laughing?”

“I’m just laughing at how worthless all those vows you made truly are.”

Three years ago, my dad and his mom’s affair became a public scandal. His dad, seeing the news in the hospital, suffered a heart attack and passed away. On the day of the burial, Finn threatened my mom’s life, dragging me to kneel before his dad’s tombstone. He swore he would bind himself to me forever, to torment me, this wicked woman, relentlessly. He also bowed to his dad, saying, “Dad, forgive me, I can’t bury Mom’s ashes with yours… No, she doesn’t deserve to be my mother! All who are unfaithful to their marriage and partner deserve to die!”

But three years later, he became the one unfaithful to his marriage.

“Hope and I… that day was an accident.”

He released my hand, his gaze unusually remorseful.

“It was the third anniversary of our dad’s death. Hope and I both drank too much, that’s why… it wasn’t my intention. You know, I’ve only ever seen her as a sister since we were kids.”

In three years, it was the first time he had explained himself so patiently.

“I originally wanted her to get rid of the baby and go abroad, but the doctor said she has a unique constitution; if she miscarries, she might be infertile for life. Scarlett, you’ve miscarried twice already and it will be difficult for you to get pregnant again. Hope said she’s willing to give birth to this child for us to raise.”

He held my cold hand, his tone uncharacteristically soft.

“When the child is born, you will be its mother, the only one.”

“Scarlett, we’ve hated each other long enough. I’m tired. After this child is born, can we live a good life, please?”

His eyes were hopeful yet cautious, instantly reminding me of the past. When he first saw me at six years old, he had mumbled to the adults that he would marry me. For the next eighteen years, he would do anything for me, saying I was his whole world.

Until three years ago, he found out that before my mom drove off to catch my dad, I was the only one who had spoken to her. He hated me fiercely, saying:

“Even if your dad and my mom did something wrong, they didn’t deserve to die, did they? Why were you so cruel as to instigate your mom to kill them!”

I endured the pain and tried to explain, it wasn’t me. He was about to believe me, when another piece of bad news arrived. His dad, recuperating in the hospital, suddenly suffered a heart attack from shock and died. Before he died, he had also only seen me.

Finn completely lost his mind. He grabbed my throat and roared:

“What did my dad ever do to you that you would hurt him like this!”

In that moment, all love turned into hatred and venom. Just like the look in my eyes when I stared at him now.

“No need. I don’t make a habit of being cuckolded and raising other people’s children.”

“Finn, if you feel your hatred for me is satisfied, please set me free.”

His expression suddenly changed, and he was about to speak when Hope’s crying voice came from outside the door.

“Brother, does Scarlett really not accept our baby?”

“If that’s the case, I’ll just get rid of it!”

She cried and ran outside. Finn quickly got up and chased after her. My phone rang again. When I answered, the person on the other end spoke anxiously:

“Scarlett, why haven’t you gone to the sanatorium yet? Don’t you want to come see me?”

“No, there have been some unexpected issues. Give me a few more days.”

After hanging up, I could no longer support myself. My eyes rolled back, and I completely fainted.