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Marie and the rest of the domestic staff were nowhere to be found as Estrella, overwhelmed by despair and helplessness, wept inconsolably.

“Bryce,” No one came out of the house. Feeling waves of intense pain in her stomach, Estrella burst into tears.

Today, she shouldn’t have trusted Jason to pick her up, gone back to Sandalwood Oasis with Drew, and waited for Jason at home.

If only she had returned to Waterfall Acres, she wouldn’t have had that nasty encounter with that stray cat, and taken this terrible fall.

“Ella.” Just as Estrella was about to muster the strength to get up, Bryce’s voice suddenly filled the air behind her. Bryce went pale when he saw Estrella crumpled on the ground. He rushed to her side, dropping to his knees and steadying her. “Ella, what happened?”

His gaze settled on Estrella’s face, red-nosed and tear-streaked, and his heart shattered into pieces. In all the years he’d known Estrella, she’d rarely ever cried, let alone appeared so disheveled and helpless.

Bryce was there, and to Estrella, he was a lifeline. She clutched at his collar desperately, “Bryce, the hospital. Take me to the hospital.”

Bryce, trembling, lifted Estrella off the ground and made a beeline for the hospital. On the way, Bryce’s shaking didn’t cease. His lips turned a worrying shade of blue.

He had never been so anxious and frightened in his 23 years of life, especially seeing Estrella’s face drained of color. A mix of tenderness and rage boiled inside him.

Estrella had to divorce Jason no matter what.

Outside the operating room, when the nurse handed Estrella’s down jacket to him, Bryce only then noticed blood on the clothes. Back at Sandalwood Oasis, Estrella’s layers had concealed the blood, and the waterproof jacket hadn’t let it seep through. Now, gazing at Estrella’s stained clothes, Bryce felt as if his heart had been ripped out.

If he had known it would come to this, he would have risked everything all those years ago to prevent Estrella from marrying Jason.

Sandalwood Oasis.

ventured out into the yard to look for her and found no trace of her, just her cell phone buried under a fresh blanket of

searched the house top to bottom, sighing helplessly

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Chapter 183

Estrella, and she had waited at home for hours for nothing. If Marie were in Estrella’s shoes, she’d be livid too, not wanting to see

about the young

sense does it make

in the

out at the heavy snowfall and then at Jason, sitting beside her. It

been ages since Ravenwood has seen such a heavy snow. It’s as

by her side made Holly feel like she had

her voice tinged with nostalgia. “Jason, wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could turn back time, if we…” Noticing Jason’s mood, Holly tactfully let the sentence trail off. Whatever the case,

three grueling hours, Estrella was finally wheeled out of the operating

“Ella.”

her hands in theirs. It was just

the two of them and her father, no one knew of her pregnancy. She’d asked not to tell her mother, fearing

to her several times, but when she didn’t respond, Jesse

hospital room, still unconscious. Bryce was silent, his breaths measured, while Jesse sat quietly by her side. They stayed through the night. The snow finally ceased after seven or eight hours, layering the world in about a

broke the silence. “She’s been

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said she’ll be alright,” Bryce assured her, though his voice was hollow.

maybe we should have tried harder to persuade Estrella.”

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