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Outside the surgery room, Hugo lit cigarette after cigarette.
Adeline watched the worry on his face and thought back to the time she had appendicitis. He had waited all night outside the operating room then
too.
“Mr. Bernard, she’s losing too much blood! The blood bank is critically low. We need immediate donors onsite!” A doctor burst out of the door.
“Take mine,” Hugo said, rolling up his sleeve without hesitation.
“No, your blood type is AB. She’s type O,” the doctor replied.
Hugo immediately turned to look at Adeline. In that instant, it felt like a thunderclap had struck her.
Taking a shaky step back, she said quietly, “I’m not giving any.”
“Aline!” Hugo held her wrist tightly, his eyes fierce. “This isn’t the time to argue. She’s expecting. If anything goes wrong, we’ll all be stuck here. Do you get that?”
Adeline’s chest filled with pain.
Was he afraid of being stuck here or was he scared that something would happen to their unborn child?
“What if I refuse?” she asked in a low voice.
Hugo’s expression turned cold. “Steffie got hurt because I went to save you. You’ve already benefited. Is it really that hard for you to help out by just donating some blood?”
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He stared at her, disappointment clear in his eyes. “Adeline, when did you become this kind of person?”
Adeline’s eyes were filled with tears. Had she really become different?
“So, you regret saving me, don’t you? If you had the chance to do it over, you’d pick Steffie instead, wouldn’t you?” Her voice shook as she said.
Hugo looked shocked. “What are you saying?”
The doctor shouted, panicked, “The patient’s life is in danger! If we wait any longer, both mother and baby won’t make it!”
Hugo’s expression stiffened, and he gave the bodyguard a sharp command, “Take her to the blood donation room!”
Adeline kept fighting, but they forced her into the room anyway. It was then she noticed Hugo, standing frozen while staring at the operating room doors. He didn’t even glance her way–not once.
And that was when she stopped resisting.
The pain of the needle slipping into her vein was nothing compared to how much her heart hurt. When the bag reached 400ml, the nurse looked worried. “She’s too weak…”
“Keep going,” Hugo said, his back still facing her.
When the blood bag reached 600ml, Adeline’s vision started to blur, and everything around her faded into darkness.
In a daze, she thought she saw the moment she first met Hugo. He was standing near the fish stall, flashing her a warm smile. He said, “I’m Hugo. I’ll see you again tomorrow.”
When Adeline woke up, the first thing she noticed was Hugo sitting next to her bed.
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She assumed he would try to gently comfort her like he had done in the past, asking her for another chance. But instead, when she looked up, all she saw in his eyes was harsh coldness.
“Did you mess with the backdrop?” he asked without hesitation, his tone sharp and frozen.
Adeline stared blankly. “What are you talking about?”
Hugo said, his gaze as hard as steel, “My parents have already looked into it. The backdrop was tampered with. Who else except you would go so far as to hurt Steffie?”
She felt her whole body freeze, and her fingers trembled without her noticing. “I’ll say it again–it wasn’t me. Not this time, not before, not ever. Do you even believe me?”
Hugo snapped, his voice growing colder, “You’re always asking me to trust you, but look at the things you’ve done! You set Steffie up and harmed the child. I’ve told you so many times that I’m only kind to her because of the children. Why can’t you stop causing problems? If she loses the baby, what good will that do for any of us?”
Adeline’s chest tightened, and her heart was racing. A mix of pain and fury choked her.
She wanted to scream back, to defend herself, to tell him as loudly as she could that she had never done anything to hurt anyone.
She wanted to ask if he remembered telling her that she was the only one he trusted. Had he really forgotten how he had once promised he would never question her?
But in the end, she didn’t say any of that. Instead, she looked at him with tired eyes and said slowly, her voice shaking, “Fine. If you don’t believe me, then let’s just stop here.
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