Chapter 7: Escape

Candice took Alva to the imperial capital that day. They went to the most medically advanced private hospital with the highest standards that money could buy.

Four nurses and two doctors surrounded her at all times and gave her the most meticulous and thorough examinations.

Alva mechanically allowed them to jostle her around.

The night drew to a close.

Alva leaned back in her hospital bed with her hand on her stomach. She gazed out of the window into the night.

After nine months… No, in seven or so months, the baby would be taken from her womb.

She would never see it again.

Is this… what she wanted?

That night, Alva had a nightmare that Uriah was standing in front of her. He said, “Alva, do you know what happens when you don’t know what’s good for you?

She was forcibly taken into the operating room. There, the doctor put on gloves and picked up a scalpel, then used it to slash at her stomach.

“Don’t-!”

Alva screamed in terror and sat upright.

The nurse on watch immediately came over, “Ma’am.”

But Alva was still in the nightmare. She pushed the nurse. away, “Don’t touch me!”

She shrank back and looked at the nurse with fear and

“You can’t touch my

at her appearance and quickly tried to ring

out of bed and ran toward

exit.

get out of this horrible

the door, opened it,

Calm down.

was a

she was in

here, then that dream would come

stay here.

to leave.

take

doctor came over to examine her and

nurse in the room to watch her.

looked at the nurse and asked, “Can you take me

nurse looked at

and it felt so realistic. I want

about the way she looked just now and said, “Okay, but you can’t walk

“Okay, thank you.”

nurse guided her downstairs. Alva gripped the hem of her clothes and looked around calmly.

into the alley ahead. Under a large banyan

immediately supported her, “What’s

hurts. Ah, it

How did

nurse also panicked and looked

quickly interjected, “Hurry, get a

I’ll get going. Stay here and don’t

My child… My

couldn’t afford to delay things any longer and immediately ran into the hospital. Alva took off her coat as soon as the nurse was out of sight, turned the sweater

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