My Daughter's Death, His Cruelest Regret

the heart monitor as its trace

-year-old girl lying on the hospital bed, t

ating room while her daughter underwent surgery. Though the doct

ation. Please get your husband to the hospital so he can see h

Rylee took out her phone and ca

Marshall, had been admitted to the hospital with

o another unanswered call when so

eaking as she sobbed. "Evan, you n

nterrupted her with obvious impatience. "Rylee, how much longer a

s small body grew a little col

died, yet Evan still believed

ough the phone. "Evan, just listen to h

s, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall. The baby is deve

belief. Was Evan accompanying anothe

stood right beside the pediatric wing. Rylee stagg

department, keeping an attractiv

woman was Claire Collins, whom Eva

t Evan had been accompanying Cla

spread through Ry

ately dropped his arm from Claire's waist. His express

ed straight at him. "Are you no

ed indifferently. "Every other time, she was fine after a

ed both hands

vocative gleam in her eyes. "So you must be Rylee. I app

ctly clear to Rylee tha

ing a baby. I'm taking her back to our place. From

eyes bloodshot. "And why

, Evan had n

e asked of her. Not once had she refused him. This was the

from overseas. She's still working for the company despite her pregnancy. As a housewife, you have no ide

tly that her nails left cresce

On the contrary, she had to pay the household bills out of the savings she had accumulat

ire whispered to Evan in

doctor warned you against overexerting yourself. We

f her eyebrow, then moved even closer

eks. She had no time to fall apart. Her

kness swept across her vision and she be

ely, she caught hold of his sleeve as though it were her

s grandmother when a woman suddenly grabbed ho

Her face was as delicate as a doll's, but

en leaf, so weightless was her body t

husband behaves like this? Your wife spent three days tending to your daughter without a moment to rest,

s woman he was holding, then at the doctor shouting at him. A flicker of bewil

istant Jasper Carter stared with hi

ountry's elite. Nobody in the city dared to turn him down. Yet someone had just c

orizing cremation. They pushed the form into Kristopher's hands. "You

his arms and the lifeless girl lying on the bed.

perwork nearly scared J

signature, the word "Father