Even after Her Death by Rita Bond

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.

a fever-reducing shot. You have

was 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.

soften him-fter all, they were his

darkened. For a split second something like resentment flickered in his eyes. "If it weren't

was right. He hadn't even glanced at the children after I gave birth. Even now, he refused to

"But Mr. Carter, they're the children Ms. Chloe gave her life to bring into this world. They're

singular devotion. He gave all his love to

"Just have someone take care

"And what about you?"

stay sick, maybe I'll be able to see

froze. So that's

elements, forcing his body into a fevered state-just to

me when they were at their weakest. He was testing if

idi*t, Carter!" I whispered, cursing

Then, as if hearing something impossible, he turned toward me in

back the blanket and lunged toward

him, too-just like I

we were like two souls from different worlds, separated by life and death. We passed

nearly collapsed onto

Without a word, he dismissed the doctor and quietly closed the door, leaving us alone.

slightly, his trembling hand reaching out as if to touch my

him now. Did I seem like

about spirits who had died tragically-their tongues hanging out, their

look that terrible...

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knew you were still

a small smile. "Carl, I saw

true. I had barely spared them a glance before rushing

I said it anyway-hoping to awaken the father in

"Are they

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husband has such incredible genes. Of course, our babies are beautiful." Then, gently, I asked, "Carl, won't you go

don't want to," he

blood. Chloe, I can't

His

intensity. "I'd rather they had never existed. I just want you back." Hearing

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

from my body, what did you do? Can't you do