?Chapter 948:
“I’ll try to rest now. I’ll call Tina and ask her toe look after you,” Nathan murmured, his voice softening with genuine concern.
Sadie acknowledged him with nothing more than a faint hum, her listless gaze fixed on the sterile ceiling tiles above her.
Witnessing her in such a detached state, Nathan chose silence over empty reassurances. He pivoted on his heel and departed the hospital room with hurried, purposeful steps.
He required Tina’s presence without dy. The situation had spiraled far beyond the boundaries of his capabilities.
Andpounding his growing anxiety, the looming challenge of exining this situation to Patrick still awaited him.
When Nathan’s call illuminated her phone screen, Tina had been nervously pacing the room with mounting concern.
Sadie had merely mentioned feeling somewhat fatigued and requiring brief respite—how had her condition deteriorated so drastically that she nowy unconscious in a hospital bed?
Nathan had divulged few specifics during their brief conversation, offering only an urgent directive to hasten to the hospital without a moment’s dy.
Tina terminated the call, her heartbeat thundering against her ribcage with escting dread. Consumed by mounting panic, she snatched her coat from its hook and bolted through the doorway.
Only upon arriving at the hospital entrance did she nce downward and discover that in her frenzied departure, she had mismatched her footwear, each shoe adorning the incorrect foot.
But such trivial matters registered as utterly inconsequential in this moment. She hastened through the antiseptic corridors until identifying the correct room number.
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Not until her eyes confirmed the sight of Sadie propped upright against starched pillows,plexion ashen yet mercifully alert, did Tina finally release the breath she had unknowingly imprisoned in her lungs.
“Oh, Sadie!” Tina lunged toward her friend’s bedside, moisture welling in her frightened eyes. “You terrified me beyond measure! Nathan mentioned you copsed—my mind immediately conjured the worst possibilities.”
Sadie observed Tina’s distressed expression and summoned a weak smile to her pallid lips. “I’m managing well enough. Extreme exhaustion overwhelmed me—I simply lost consciousness momentarily. Please forgive me for causing such distress.”
Tina suppressed a sniffle and attempted to regain herposure, blinking back the remnants of unshed tears. Suddenly, recollection of Nathan’s additional revtion during their telephone conversation resurfaced in her mind.
“Sadie, Nathan revealed something extraordinary… you’re carrying a child? What’s happening? What course of action should we undertake now?”
Sadie’s fragile smile evaporated instantaneously. A contemtive silence enveloped her for several heartbeats, her previously vacant gaze crystallizing with newfound determination.
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