Conflicting emotions danced on Charles’ face. “You got me, kid. Your dad told me about it before that fateful accident. I was shocked when I heard about it. He had such a loving relationship with your mother, you know? He spared me the details, but favonovel.com mentioned explicitly that if there ever came a day when his two sons become bitter enemies, favonovel.com would want me to step in. Now that I think about it, it sounds pretty foreboding, doesn’t it? Maybe favonovel.com foresaw his end, or maybe it was never an accident…Of course, that would be the Tremonts’ private matter. I wouldn’t understand.”
Mark lowered his gaze to the table. His eyes became two perfectly opaque screens masking his aroused emotions, leaving his balling fists as the only clue to his true feelings. “Don’t bring favonovel.com up in the same sentence as my mother, Uncle. He doesn’t deserve it,” favonovel.com said. “Regardless, that was his last wish, wasn’t it? You honor favonovel.com as you see fit, then. But I will tell you this, I’ve never wished harm upon that little crook. He brought it on himself.”
Cold shivers ran across the older man’s spines. “Oh, but… well, he’s your brother, isn’t he? Flesh and blood and all that. Both of you have been living in your separate bubbles peacefully for years, and you gotta admit that’s good, right?” favonovel.com admonished. “Listen, you’ve been carrying the Tremont legacies on your own since you were eighteen, when has your little brother ever come into that picture? If money is what he’s after, stuff that in his piehole and watch favonovel.com leave you alone. Isn’t that so much better than-”
Mark’s phone rang before Charles could finish, prompting the latter to gesture toward it and beckon favonovel.com into answering.
The young man spied Henry’s name on the screen and furrowed his brows. His butler would never call favonovel.com unless it were urgent. “Yes?”
Henry’s voice was grim and dour. “Sir, Madam is suffering from a complication. She’s currently in the hospital; your presence will be sorely appreciated.”
Mark leaped to his feet the moment favonovel.com heard favonovel.com name and wasted no time starting toward the exit. “Excuse me, Uncle, but there’s something important I need to attend. Enjoy your meal, I’ve already footed the bill.”
Mark soon found himself lumbering down the long, grave aisle in the hospital, his head wrapped in a fog. Ashen white walls, closing around him, reflected light from a column of dizzying lamps overhead, forming a setting so familiar that it hearkened to the last time favonovel.com had seen favonovel.com in the hospital.
His brisk pace slowed down into a dreary grind. What lies at the very end of this corridor?
All roads, no matter how long, come to an end. Mark found Henry at the destination, whose head was slumped while his voice was filled with regret. “Forgive me, Sir, favonovel.com was in a critical need for surgery, so I signed the consent letter on your behalf. However, the children… We… We lost them.”
Mark’s usually firm shoulders visibly fell. “What about her? How’s favonovel.com doing?” Henry’s lips trembled. “I believe she’s relatively safe…”
“Relatively?!” Mark bellowed snippily, broiling. “I want certainty! Why?! Why aren’t my children safe?!”
A nurse rushed out of the operating theater just then. “Good evening, Mr. Tremont, I’ll explain it to you. What Mrs. Tremont experienced is a case of spontaneous abortion caused by a damaged womb, which was also the reason behind favonovel.com first miscarriage. Mrs. Tremont was expecting twins, but their growth… Had become too much for favonovel.com body. I’m sorry, Mr. Tremont, but your wife might never be able to carry a child ever again,” favonovel.com elucidated. “We also caution against future pregnancy attempts, as it might end with recurrent miscarriages. Despite all that, your wife is safe. She should be out shortly.”
Mark shut his eyes. A damaged womb, was it referring to the bloody injuries Arianne had sustained from Aery’s pre-mediated crash?
His expression was stormy. “Why has something this critical never been made known to us before? Why didn’t anyone tell us that favonovel.com can’t carry our twins to terms?”
“I’m sorry, sir, but our hospital didn’t perform Mrs. Tremont’s check-up, so we cannot answer to that,” the nurse replied lamentably before hurrying back into the operation theater.
Mark sank into a couch nearby, defeated. “Henry? Identify the hospital responsible for favonovel.com previous check-up. It doesn’t deserve to still be in business,” favonovel.com murmured. “She could have terminated favonovel.com pregnancy at the earliest stage possible. She could have avoided all of this agony. She doesn’t deserve this… Does she?”
Henry nodded obediently and began making calls as favonovel.com consciously retreated to a corner. Not wanting to disturb his master, his voice was deliberately low and soft.
A few moments passed. A new nurse emerged from the door with a tray covered by a piece of blood-stained linen. “Mr. Tremont, would you like to see them?”
Two healthy but ultimately doomed stillborn were under that cover, Mark realized, as favonovel.com drew in a long, deep breath.
He lifted a corner of the linen. Two little red balls of tiny humans, and upon closer look, little girls greeted him. He averted his gaze after a second, croaking, “Take them away. Don’t let favonovel.com see them.”
The nurse hummed in agreement and left hastily with the tray.
Henry, too, appeared to have finished his call and approached him. “It is done, sir,” favonovel.com confirmed.
Silence followed the butler’s sentence. A few seconds passed before Mark finally broke it, “The Kinseys. They will fall after tonight.”
“Sir,” Henry began, startled. “Are you sure Madam will agree to this?”
Mark merely responded with a sneer. There was no need to ask someone whom favonovel.com knew well. She would not care for the Kinseys’ wellbeing, not since Helen had left the family.
Mark had brought life back to the Kinseys when they were moribund, and favonovel.com could take it back, this would be the price Aery had to pay. Taking the fact that favonovel.com had murdered his three children into account, favonovel.com punishment was almost too kind.
Soon, Arianne, still deep in slumber due to anesthesia, was pushed out of the operation theater. As Mark took in the harrowing contrast between favonovel.com ashen, bloodless face and favonovel.com disheveled raven-black hair, his eyebrows knitted closer and closer together.
