Seeing his wife down, Dad rushed at Frank, but Frank grabbed him by the throat before he could land a punch.
“You old bastard, you think you can hit me? If you hadn’t pushed me to drag Heather here, my baby wouldn’t be dead! If anything happens to Lily, you’re going down for murder!”
Dad was choking, his face turning purple, eyes bulging as he tried to pry Frank’s hand off.
Mom, scrambling on the floor, finally managed
to get to her feet.
“The baby may be dead, but we can still use the
cord blood! Quick, get it to Lily!”
Dad snapped out of it and quickly nodded.
Frank released my dad from the neck, quickly helping my mom.
“What you are saying is true?”
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My mother held out the bloody thing to him. “Go now! Before Lily dies on us!” Dad grabbed the cord blood and bolted.
I watched him leave and my mom seemed to
relax. “Well, I guess you are useful, so I will sew you up as best I can.”
She looked back at me and I laughed in a cold tone.
“You are going to pay for this, and everyone will go to hell with you!” I stared at her.
The needle plunged deep into my skin. “Pay?
Well, I saved my own daughter. And who will stop me?”
The pain started to make me feel like I was going insane. “I will make sure you all pay for it, and you won’t save Lily.”
Frank tried to give me some kind words, as if
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nothing happened.
“You are saying these things because of what happened to the baby, you know? She needed to be saved.”
“You can have more children, I will take care of you, and it will make up for all of this.”
Looking at Frank, I nearly threw up. “Lily will die because…”
Before I could finish, the door to the operating room burst open.
“Freeze! You’re all under arrest for practicing
medicine without a license!” It was Officer Chen, standing in the doorway with backup.
“I knew something was wrong when you tried so hard to keep her from talking. I called the
hospital and they said she wasn’t scheduled for
delivery. We took the stairs to get here faster!”
Chen looked at Mom and Frank with disgust,
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No anesthesia, my stomach cut open, blood
everywhere.
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“How could you do this to your own daughter?”
Chen looked away, and saw the dead baby
thrown off the table.
“Are you even people? That is your son, your
grandson!”
My mother did not regret anything that
happened and kept sewing me up.
“This is my daughter. I can do what I want. The
baby was dead.”
Frank backed up his wife. “My wife started to
have labor, and the hospital didn’t have the
resources! The baby was stillborn, all by itself.
He was a model liar.
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Chen’s face turned darker. “The worst type of people I have ever seen.”
That was when the chief of the hospital came in.
“You have a lot of nerve. You did not have the qualifications to operate. I am going to get you
fired!”
Mom did not care.
“Can I not work on my daughter? This is crazy!
You don’t have the right!”
