Loved You Once But He's My Forever

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...

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.

"Mr. Bolton, don't worry. It's just a fever-reducing shot. You have a high temperature."

His voice was weak, but firm. "Leave me be."

still hanging by a thread, and the little ones are barely a day old. If you fall ill, who will take

the children would soften him—after all, they were his

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

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

his disapproval. "But Mr. Carter,

to bring into this world. They're your flesh and

of cold, singular devotion. He gave all his love to me and not even his own children could take

have someone

"And what about you?"

sick, maybe

froze. So

himself to the elements, forcing

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

I whispered, cursing

hearing something impossible, he turned toward

toward me, arms

reached for him, too-just like I

were like two souls from different worlds, separated

nearly collapsed onto the

doctor 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,

his trembling hand reaching out as if

what I looked like to him

who had died tragically-their tongues hanging out,

look

I knew you

forced a small smile. "Carl, I

them

to awaken

stiffened. "Are they

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

don't want to," he

look at them, I

I see them, I might do something I can't

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

that, my

how he once told me he wasn't young anymore-that he hoped I would give him an heir. And

from my

shook his head. "That

the Stone

you threw it away. Our lives were

to be your death ... then when Zoey's heart stops

a chilling

this was it? The death I had feared all

I die, will always be with you and our children. I may disappear, but my love won't. I will always love you. "So please ... don't give up on yourself. Seeing you like this hurts me so