Forced Marriage: My Wife, My Redemption by Lilyheart

Chapter 353: A chance that he is alive...

Knowing her grandmother’s skill in medicine, Jessica found it hard to accept that Nora’s pregnancy, so closely monitored and free of complications, could have ended in a stillbirth.

"Prolonged labour?" she murmured aloud, then shook her head. "Definitely impossible."

As she wrestled with the thought, Nelly’s voice broke the silence beside her.

"I didn’t believe it either," the old woman said, drawing in a deep breath. "But then I was handed a lifeless baby boy... they said he was Nora’s child."

At that moment, holding the baby tightly wrapped in a brown carton, they had both felt pain, anger, and dismay.

Nora had borne that pregnancy with carefulness and hope. She had exhausted every preparation necessary to welcome the twins.

So many times, she had told Nora, the twins are a testament of the love that was denied.

To Nora, they meant everything.

That was why she had insisted on Nelly’s presence in the Brown household to protect what she valued most and help nurse herself and the children.

When Jessica came of age, Nelly returned to the countryside, believing her duty was fulfilled.

"And the baby?" Jessica asked in contemplation, her brow furrowed.

"He had been buried in the Brown family Cemetery," she answered.

Jessica shook her head with resignation and disbelief. The more she thought about that incident, the more she suspected something fishy.

"Grandma, don’t you think something about all this feels... wrong?"

Nelly glanced over at her, her fingers tightening on her walking stick as she exhaled deeply. This question had lived in the shadows of her heart for years, gnawing at her conscience.

If she had been just a moment earlier, if she had noticed one more sign, maybe the child could have been saved.

have died with regret etched

no medicine for regrets. No antidote for what has

Jessica’s voice sounded

to end up in the middle of

her limit

listening intently

her arrival, she was handed a

mother passed out along the way, which could be induced... all of it seems too

think something was done deliberately?" Her heart raced with

grimly. "I do." There is no need to hide it

silence

Nelly whispered, her voice trembling with rage and

had never thought about

imagined the plights of Nora

to her eyes as she clutched Jessica’s hands with her trembling hand, her wrinkled fingers tightening with surprising strength around

must avenge her. she whispered

the price..." she murmured, her gaze boring into Jessica’s

make them feel the pain they

she kept a calm front. She couldn’t lose her composure before her

please calm down," she said gently. "You need to take

nodded her head in

health stand in the way

see

her daughter and her grandson pay a painful price, and she would wish so much to be the one

she understood it so well. Her age is becoming

all, she hoped she could give Nora an account and

cold and unwavering as they met Jessica’s eyes. "You must get

her palm holding hers tightly as a soft smile danced on her lips. "Grandma,

for a while as she weighed on the possible reaction she

it a go. "Grandma, "What if... the baby you buried