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 a

weak, but firm.

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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,

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

glanced at the children after I gave birth. Even now, he

his disapproval. "But Mr. Carter, they're the children Ms.

devotion. He gave all his love to

muttered, "Just have someone

"And what about you?"

maybe I'll be

froze. So that's

to the elements, forcing his body into

closer to me. Luke and Grandma had both seen me when they were at their weakest. He was testing if

Carter!" I whispered, cursing him

tensed. Then, as if hearing something impossible, he

and lunged toward me, arms outstretched, trying to hold me

I reached for him, too-just like I

separated by life and death. We

collapsed onto

thought his fever was making him delirious Damian, however, seemed to understand something. Without a word, he dismissed the doctor and quietly closed the door, leaving us alone. "Carl,"

reaching out as if to

him now. Did

died tragically-their tongues hanging

didn't look

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I knew you were still

small smile. "Carl, I

had barely spared them a glance before rushing

I said it anyway-hoping to awaken the

"Are they

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Of course, our babies are beautiful." Then,

want to," he

I can't

His

darkened with an almost manic intensity. "I'd rather they had never existed. I just want

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

my soul was separated from my body, what did you

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