Filed To Story: Returning to Her Not-So-Poor Family
“I know my own body. To have a granddaughter like you in my life, I’m already more than content. I didn’t live this life in vain.”
Grace was huffing and puffing as she spoke, struggling to supplement, “My only regret is that I won’t be able to see you in your wedding dress, stepping Into the world of matrimony.”
Bella would surely look stunning in a wedding dress! But it was a shame that she wouldn’t be able to see it in this lifetime.
Just then, the operating room door was flung open by Caden, “Bellal Romeo has been waiting outside!”
“Let him in!” After Mirabella finished speaking, she carefully wiped the tears off the old lady’s face, pleading softly, “Granny, please hang in there for a bit longer. Romeo is on his way. I haven’t even introduced you two yet.”
Grace seemed to not hear her, using her last bit of strength to smile, “I’m no longer a burden to you, look after yourself, be happy.” “Granny!”
Romeo ran in just to see Grace stop breathing in front of Mirabella, her eyes weakly closing and her frail hand slipping down.
“Granny!” Mirabella couldn’t believe what was happening right in front of her, holding onto Grace, her mind in a blank slate.
Not long after, the whole operating room was filled with the girl’s heartbreaking cries. Romeo’s feet froze in place, never expecting to be a second too late, a second that meant the difference between life and death.
“Granny, wake up!” Mirabella knelt on the cold floor, cradling the old lady’s body and wailing hysterically.
That was the first time Romeo saw her cry.
From when he first met her, she had never shown her vulnerability, like there was nothing in the world she couldn’t handle.
She was always so proud, so strong, but now she was crying like a child.
“I didn’t even get to take you abroad, didn’t get to introduce Romeo to you, why did you have to leave me?”
Mirabella cried out; her heartache evident.
“Granny, come back, we have so many things left to do together.”
“You promised me, you said you’d live to a hundred.”
“Granny, it’s all my fault.”
Seeing her blaming herself, Romeo walked over, bending down to gently hold her.
“You did your best.”
At least in Romeo’s eyes, from the early hours of the morning till the afternoon, she had done everything she could to save her granny’s life.
If there was any chance at all, she wouldn’t let her granny slip away from her.
Mirabella sobbed sorrowfully and guiltily, “I’m a doctor but I couldn’t save her, why? Why couldn’t I save her? Why was there no other way?”
Romeo held her tightly, his eyes reddening. He knew how important Grace was to Mirabella, and he understood her feelings at that moment more deeply. “It’s not your fault, you did everything you could. If you’re sad, cry it out. I’m here for you.”
“I couldn’t save her, Romeo,” Mirabella lowered her head as if defeated by reality, and held onto the old lady’s body, crying bitterly.
When she was studying medicine, she had promised her granny that she would protect her health and ensure her longevity!
She had even promised her granny that she would live to a hundred, because there was no surgery she couldn’t handle in this world.
But now, her granny had passed away in front of her due to a heart rupture!
People knew that Dr. Bell was incredible, with superb medical skills, but they didn’t know that there were people in this world that even Dr. Bell couldn’t save!
Kenneth and Louisa, loaded with gifts, arrived at the hospital, only to learn that the old lady was being resuscitated in the operating room. Just as they reached the door of the operating room, they could hear a girl’s painful crying.
That voice was unmistakably Bella’s.
They both froze, their minds in a whirl. They looked at Caden, who stood silent at the door, and finally couldn’t help but ask, “Dr. Caden, how’s the old lady?”
“She just passed away,” Caden stood at the door, watching Bella crying her heart out inside, and Romeo just holding her, letting her sob in his arms.
If he could, he would want to comfort her too, but his position only allowed him to stand by, watching her in pain, unable to even approach and comfort her.
Caden’s eyes were also somewhat red, his voice filled with heartache as he exclaimed the situation to them, “Bella tried to save her for eleven hours, she really did her best.”
Eleven hours, if there was a glimmer of hope, she would not let the old lady leave; but the old lady’s body really had no room to turn around.
Louisa was struck hard, dropping the things in her hands. Kenneth quickly dropped what he had to support her, “Honey, are you okay?”
Louisa felt a pang in her heart, filled with grief. She had not expected that the old lady would pass away before they could at least see her for once.
They were too late!
At this moment, Bella must be devastated!
“Grace, Grace!”
Just then, an old figure ran out of the elevator, stumbling towards the operating room.
He was trying his best, pushing through the crowd all the way, and forcefully opening the door of the operating room, only to be met with a cold corpse.
He was about to lose his balance, but luckily, Caden at the door was quick to support him, or else he would have collapsed on the ground!
“Grace!”
This sorrowful call was filled with the old man’s sadness and pain.
He suddenly felt discomfort in his heart in the morning, and he had a premonition that something might happen to Grace.
All morning, he couldn’t reach Bella by phone. He was feeling uncomfortable as his heart was aching, so he could only send someone to the hospital to inquire, and he found out that Bella was performing surgery on Grace.
He thought it to be the surgery that was originally planned, so he waited patiently for the news.
When he felt a little better, and had somewhat recovered, he came to the hospital. Just as he reached the hospital entrance, he received the bad news. He learned that this surgery wasn’t the one originally planned, but that Grace had a sudden illness last night. Bella had been resuscitating her all night for eleven hours, but the old lady eventually passed away.
He did not know how he managed to walk to Grace’s side, looking at her, looking at her over and over again, and even subconsciously checking her breath, which was indeed gone.
His heart was squeezed into a ball, so painful that he could hardly breathe. After a while, he trembled and gently touched Grace’s hand. It was cold, without the warmth of life.
At that moment, he suddenly burst into tears, “Grace!”
Why did she leave just like that! Why didn’t she wait for him to come, not giving him a chance to see her for the last time, and just leave like that!
Wasn’t she the one who loved Bella the most? Why did she even leave her behind?
What happened? What happened last night?
“Grace!”
Alberto held the cold body, never expecting that in all these years the only time he would hold her would be in this situation.
His cry was filled with pain and despair.
New Book: Returned To Make Them Pay
On her wedding anniversary, Alicia is drugged and stumbles into the wrong room—straight into the arms of the powerful Caden Ward, a man rumored never to touch women. Their night of passion shocks even him, especially when he discovers she’s still a virgin after two years of marriage to Joshua Yates.