Even after Her Death by Rita Bond

Chapter 514

Chapter 514 Fate Has Run Its Course

"Carl, I'm here. I've been here all along."

I pressed my face against his. Can he feel me?

He knelt on the ground, his usual elegance and dignity nowhere to be seen. He looked utterly exhausted

even.

"Carl, it's raining. Please go inside. You'll catch a cold."

He had already lost so much weight. If he got sick on top of that, even the strongest immune system wouldn't help.

And if he fell ill, who would take care of our children?

As if fate enjoyed mocking me, the moment the thought crossed my mind, Carter suddenly collapsed forward.

"Carl!"

Instinctively, I reached out to catch him.

However, he fell right through me, crashing onto the wet ground.

"Somebody, help! Save Carl!"

I screamed until my voice was raw, but no one could hear me. I could only watch, helpless, as he lay unconscious before me.

"Carl... Carl...

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Kneeling in the rain, I pleaded with the heavens.

Please, if you must take someone, take me. Just spare Carl and our children. I don't care if I never wake

up again, or if I can only stay by their side as a spirit-as long as they are safe and well.

At last, Damian arrived. Seeing Carter unconscious on the ground, he strode over in alarm.

"Mr. Carter!"

"Damian, help him, please!"

Damian lifted Carter onto his back and carried him inside. The doctor's diagnosis confirmed he was

simply too weak-he hadn't rested in days, and the cold rain had only made things worse.

That night, he developed a fever.

When the doctor prepared to administer an injection to bring it down, Carter suddenly woke up, stopping him.

It's just a fever-reducing shot.

weak, but firm.

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Carter, you're already so weak. Ms. Chloe's life is still hanging by a thread, and the little ones are barely a day old. If you fall ill, who will take care of

mentioning the children would soften him-fter all,

a split second something like resentment flickered in his eyes. "If it weren't for them, Chloe wouldn't be

children after I gave birth. Even now, he refused to hold

the honest man, couldn't hide his disapproval. "But Mr. Carter, they're the children Ms. Chloe gave her life to bring into this

man of cold, singular devotion. He gave all his

"Just have someone take

"And what about you?"

I stay sick, maybe

So that's

to the elements, forcing his body into

had both seen me when they were at their weakest. He was testing if the same would happen

I

hearing something impossible, he turned toward me in disbelief.

toward me, arms outstretched, trying to

instinct, I reached for him, too-just

worlds, separated

nearly collapsed onto the

something. Without a word, he dismissed the

reaching out as if to touch

him now. Did I seem

those stories about spirits who had died tragically-their

look

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were still here," he

smile. "Carl, I

spared them a glance before

it anyway-hoping to awaken the father in

"Are

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our babies are beautiful." Then, gently, I

want to,"

blood. Chloe, I can't accept losing you. I'm afraid... that if I see them, I might do something I can't take

His

had never existed. I just want

he once told me he wasn't young anymore-that he hoped I would give him an heir. And yet now, with our children here,

when my soul was separated from my body, what did you do? Can't you do the same

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