Chapter 119

Benjamin was taken aback to see her at the maternity ward.

“Ms. Thorne? What brings you here? Feeling unwell?” he asked.

“No, I just came to check on Corbin. Ran into a friend and didn’t get to catch up properly. Now that I’ve got a moment, I thought I’d see how they are.”

“A friend? Where are they?”

“Not sure. Couldn’t find them.”

“What’s your friend’s name? I’ll ask around for you.”

“Zane.”

Benjamin took it upon himself to get the information. After all, he was a shareholder of the hospital.

The attending doctor explained, “Zane’s here with his cousin for her termination surgery. There’s a problem with the pregnancy; it can’t be saved. Continuing could be life–threatening.”

Elysia immediately asked, “She looked to be about four or five months along. Why only find out there’s a problem now?”

“It all seemed fine until yesterday. The woman has a peanut allergy but ate a bunch of peanut butter. That endangered the baby.”

Elysia frowned, “Didn’t she know about her allergy?”

“She did. Said she ate something without realizing it contained peanut butter. A real unfortunate

accident.”

chided, “That’s incredibly careless!”

and was adamantly against the procedure,

to term. We had to contact her family out of

admitted, and the surgery is scheduled for tomorrow morning.”

been accompanying her to all her appointments since

today did she bring

see, thank you.”

Benjamin questioned her, “You and this Zane guy,

classmate and married

“You suspect he’s done something to betray your friend?”

in awkwardness, “No, they have a solid marriage. I was just asking.

“Alright then.”

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left, Benjamin promptly called Tarquin. “I just saw Ms.

was supposed to go to the office, but Elysia had scratched his face, forcing

name made Tarquin grit his teeth, “Whether she’s dead or alive, it’s no concern of

phone on the desk, and yanked at his tie

name made his blood boil!

focus on work and went to Elijah’s room

last night. He hated hospitals and insisted on returning home

him. Tarquin

still sitting by the

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