Unveiled: The Survivor's Triumph

Chapter 194 Blood Ties Are Innate

Ethan gently stroked the back of my hand, his eyes red and tired, looking at me with a mix of helplessness and exhaustion.

"Babe, I miss you so much! I can't believe you don't miss me at all."

I thought to myself, 'Of course, I do!'

Every time I thought of Ethan, it broke my heart and kept me up at night. So, I buried those feelings deep down. I threw myself into work, pretending I didn't need love.

Then, he showed up when I was at my lowest. This reunion felt like our first meeting all over again. He pulled me out of my despair, giving me warmth and hope.

When Ethan appeared, all my buried feelings came rushing back. I thought I had trained myself to act indifferent, but I was wrong. One simple sentence from him had me in tears. Ethan gently wiped them away, his eyes full of pain.

"Babe, don't cry! I've heard crying is bad for postpartum women's eyes. Let go of the knots in your heart for now. You're still very weak; let's talk about everything after you recover."

His deep, loving gaze was like a whirlpool, shaking my resolve.

It felt like if I looked any longer, I'd willingly fall into it.

I quickly looked away and shook my head gently. "I don't want to talk anymore. I don't want to go back to the way things were. The emotional entanglements between the three of us are too exhausting. I'm stepping out; please let me go." Ethan sighed softly, glancing at the two kids in the small bed beside us.

"So, do you want the kids to have no dad or mom?"

His words hit me hard. Reality was so cruel. I wanted to cut ties quickly, but I couldn't because we had kids together.

I didn't know if the kids sensed my sadness and conflict, but they suddenly started crying. One cried, and the other immediately followed.

Maybe it was a mother's instinct, but as soon as they cried, I got nervous and tried to get up. A sharp pain in my abdomen made me gasp, and Ethan pressed my shoulder down.

"Don't move. You had a C-section; there's a wound on your belly."

I reached for my abdomen. The once swollen belly was now flat, wrapped in thick bandages.

Weren't they only able to save one? Was all that talk just a dream? Was his worry, his warm touch, all just a dream?

Ethan got up and went over, his tall frame bending as he gently patted them. The look in his eyes as he gazed at the children was full of fatherly love.

Only when they stopped crying and slowly fell asleep did he sit back down.

"You were on the brink of life and death. Later, the top obstetricians in all of Seabreeze Harbor came together. They discussed a plan and performed a C-section on you." At this point, he seemed to choke up, his eyes turning red again. "Babe, I was so scared you wouldn't wake up. It's such a relief to be able to talk to you now." His voice was hoarse, and my heart was already aching terribly.

I admitted I had always been a sentimental person. It was just who I was, and no matter how much I changed, that part of me stayed the same.

I also admitted that I loved him, no matter how much pain he had caused me, no matter how long we had been apart; that love had never faded.

take care of you and be the husband and father I

he was never meant to be mine, so receiving his goodness felt like greed and

doorway. "Faris, it hurts.

woman's hair, pushing her in while closing the door, shutting out the prying

hair was a mess, covering her

Faris kicked her, and

her hair back, forcing her to lift her head and reveal her

seeing her face, I knew it was

bit, lifting my upper body so I

wrong. Please ask Faris to spare me.

touching up her makeup. But now her makeup was smeared, her hair stuck

career's rise probably displeased some peers, only she showed her displeasure openly. Only she was young and impulsive enough to use such childish means as

have a knife?"

looked at me, slightly stunned,

"Get me a knife. I want to kill this woman. Then I'll say sorry in

begging me. "Emily, please spare me

with a fierce look on his face. "Normally,

he slapped her face hard and

few slaps, Melissa's

hands. "Faris, stop hitting me. I was

my anger. If I had a

hadn't arrived in time, the kids,

asked, "Fine, no more hitting. Now tell me, how did you bribe them? What did you tell them? To

head, guiltily saying, "No, I just wanted them to teach you

because we're competitors? You think you can lose your

her head and whispered, "Because I couldn't stand that Faris would be interested in you, and that you were carrying his child. I couldn't stand it." Instinctively, I glanced at Ethan standing by the window. He showed

it, or maybe

You know that I've confessed to you many times. I can't understand what

on her knees to my bedside,

don't want to go to jail, Emily. I really don't want to go to jail. I'm still so young, and

hand, not wanting to look at

murderer is wrong the moment they raise the knife. Melissa, you're an adult, young and successful. You ruined yourself with your own hands. You can't

over and opened it. Several police officers stood at

Melissa, showing

suspect you of intentional harm. Please come

to argue. As she left with the officers,

I thought

beautiful, both acted impulsively without considering the consequences. This was probably

officers took my statement before

the two kids had

to say it