Chapter 240: One Body, Two Lives
"James, don't you dare!"
At this moment, Mia could no longer make excuses for James.
He really didn't want her or the baby in her belly anymore.
"Take her away!"
James ignored Mia's threatening glare and barked the order again at the two men restraining her.
Cold and ruthless.
Following his command, the two men gripped Mia's shoulders. Careful not to hurt her, they used skillful force to drag her toward the door.
James pressed the wheelchair controls and followed.
"Let go of me! Let me go! Don't touch me!"
Mia struggled, trying to shake off the two bodyguards' grip!
But she didn't dare struggle too hard, afraid of bumping into something and hurting the baby in her belly.
She absolutely couldn't let anything happen to the child!
Mia's screams had no effect.
Unable to break free, she could only turn her head as they dragged her out, glaring viciously at James following behind.
She threatened, "James, if you dare abort my baby, I will never forgive you for the rest of my life."
James remained unmoved.
Without a word from him, the bodyguards simply followed his original command, dragging her into the elevator.
James followed them in, and the elevator doors closed.
Mia's eyes were bloodshot, her gaze growing more vicious as she stared at James.
He sat in front of her, and she lifted her leg to kick him.
Her foot aimed straight at his bloody wound.
At the last moment, she shifted her target.
Kick after kick landed on his legs.
"James, did you hear me! I will hate you forever! I really will hate you forever!"
How could he do this to her?
How could he?
But James remained unmoved by her threats.
Soon, the elevator reached the first floor.
Mia was dragged into the car and pressed into the seat, unable to struggle.
James sat in front of her, his expression still cold.
Mia sat in the back row, unable to see James's face.
She only heard him order the driver in an extremely cold voice, "To the hospital."
He was really going through with it!
Mia trembled with rage!
Pinned down and unable to break free, the only thing she could move freely was her legs.
She kicked viciously at the back of the seat, staring at the back of James's head, eyes blazing with fury, screaming herself hoarse.
"James, do you have any humanity left? How can you be so cruel? This is your child! How can you be so heartless as to abort her?"
He knew full well how much she wanted another child.
He knew how sad she was, how reluctant, how much she missed their first child after losing it.
How much she wanted another baby to fill that void.
"James, you can't! Do you hear me, you can't! You have no right to make this decision alone!
You can choose not to want her, but you have no right to abort her! If you don't want her, I do!
Tell them to let me go, do you hear me! James, have you gone mute? Say something! Say something!"
No matter how much Mia shouted, how many threatening words she said, how much she cursed him, how hard she kicked the seat back.
James sitting in front remained unmoved, staying silent throughout.
The hospital James arranged was not far from his apartment. As the car got closer and closer to the hospital.
Mia's face grew paler and paler, her heart sinking continuously.
All the blood in her body seemed to freeze, her hands and feet cold as iron, as if she had fallen into an arctic wasteland.
He was really serious.
He was really going to abort her baby.
Overwhelming panic engulfed Mia.
Tears welled up in her eyes, and she began to beg out of extreme fear.
Her voice hoarse, trembling violently.
Helpless, fearful tears slid down her cheeks as she cried, her face wet with tears, her eyes full of pleading.
"James, I'm begging you, please let them release me, okay? I'm begging you! Please!"
"I swear to God, if you won't let me take care of you, if you don't want to see me, I won't interfere anymore, I won't appear in front of you again!
Please spare my baby, okay? Spare her!"
For the first time, Mia felt the terror of James's power.
If he really wanted to do something, she had no power to resist.
She had overestimated herself.
She thought he loved her.
So as long as she persisted, he would definitely cooperate with her.
She was wrong.
Dead wrong.
She was wrong!
The car quickly arrived at the hospital. As soon as it stopped, James raised his hand and pressed a button, and the car door opened.
The panic in Mia's eyes intensified. "No!"
As she was being dragged out of the car, she screamed shrilly, "No!"
But her resistance couldn't shake the strength of the two bodyguards at all.
She was forcibly dragged out of the car.
Mia was terrified beyond measure.
As she brushed past James, who had gotten out first, she wrapped her legs around his.
Squeezing tight.
When he looked at her, she was crying with tears and snot all over her face, utterly disheveled.
She begged desperately, "James, don't abort our baby, don't! Please, James..."
"James... I'm begging you, don't!"
She clung tightly to his legs with all her strength.
Looking at James, shaking her head continuously.
Tears flew off as she shook her head, landing on James's hand gripping the wheelchair.
His hand visibly trembled.
But only for an instant.
James bent down slightly and pried her feet from his calves, bit by bit.
"Don't..."
"James, don't..."
"Don't!!!"
Mia cried heartbreakingly, her voice growing more and more desperate.
She tried hard to tighten her grip to resist him, but was still heartlessly pried loose by James.
The moment she let go, his cold voice followed, "Take her in."
Mia was dragged into the hospital.
The operating room had been prepared long ago.
The screaming, cursing, and begging along the way left Mia's voice extremely hoarse.
At the operating room door, her eyes were red and swollen, bloodshot, and no more tears came, as if she had cried them all dry.
She just stared at James, a few steps away.
He was really going to be this heartless.
She had said harsh words, she had begged.
For his so-called not wanting to be a burden, for his so-called doing what's best for her, he made decisions for her without permission.
What right did he have!
What right did he have to forcibly abort the baby!
This baby wasn't his alone. If he didn't want to raise it, she did.
She didn't think it would be hard!
She could take good care of the baby!
As Mia was dragged into the operating room, before the door closed, she looked at James with eyes full of hatred.
Using all her strength, she screamed at him with everything she had, "James, I won't forgive you even in death!"
That last shrill scream.
Like she was crying blood!
The operating room door closed.
That sound was like a thousand-pound hammer, striking heavily on his heart.
Making him want to rush into the operating room immediately and stop the surgery.
Afraid of weakening, James quickly pressed the wheelchair controls and fled from the operating room door.
All the way into the elevator, until the wheelchair rushed out of the hospital, then he stopped.
The emotions he had been suppressing completely collapsed.
At the hospital entrance, James sat in the wheelchair, his body shaking like a willow in the wind.
His mind was full of Mia sobbing uncontrollably.
All along the way, he didn't dare show it, didn't dare let her notice, didn't dare think too much, afraid he would weaken.
Now, those images rushed uncontrollably into his mind.
The moment the operating room door closed, the look in Mia's eyes.
Eyes that wanted to kill him.
And her final blood-crying scream.
His heart felt like someone was continuously stabbing it with a knife, pierced by countless arrows.
James raised his hand to cover his chest.
In his mind, all he could see was Mia's grief-stricken appearance.
Her hatred for him, and her love for the child, all appeared before his eyes...
Mia loved children so much!
When she lost their first child, she cried night after night.
Now she finally had a second child—could he really kill it with his own hands?
For Mia, this would be a fatal blow, wouldn't it?
At this thought, James's body shook violently.
Regret instantly surged over him like a tidal wave.
What was he doing?
Had he gone mad?
He clearly loved her and the baby so much, so why was he doing things to hurt them?
No!
He couldn't!
He couldn't do this to Mia!!
Although rehabilitation was painful, for Mia and the baby, he shouldn't give up so easily.
No!
He had to find Mia, he had to stop the surgery!
He had to tell Mia he would marry her!
Right now! Immediately!
He would give her and the baby a happy home!
Even if he could never stand up again in this life, he would do everything in his power to protect them both!
As long as Mia didn't despise him, he would never let go of her hand again.
Never again!
Decision made, James immediately turned the wheelchair and rushed back.
There was still time!
Surgery needed preparation, he still had time, he could still save her and the baby.
However, when he rushed back to the operating room floor, as the elevator doors opened, he heard someone shouting—
"Someone help, the operating room is on fire, quick, put out the fire."
Hearing the operating room was on fire, James's heart filled with anxiety.
A bad feeling instantly washed over him.
He quickly looked up, and with that glance, his pupils dilated in shock.
The operating room Mia had just entered was billowing with smoke, flames shooting up, the fire tongues fierce as if they could devour everything in heaven and earth.
Including Mia!
James's eyes were stung red by the firelight until they seemed ready to bleed. "No!"
"Mia—"
That cry of "Mia" was absolutely heartbreaking.