Chapter 1124
Just as Arista tremblingly dialed home, hurried footsteps echoed from the end of the corridor.
“Khloe?”
Arista’s eyes flickered. She quickly went forward.
There stood Khloe, arriving in haste with a group of bodyguards behind her.
She moved as if carried by the wind, not even stopping to greet George nearby. Her gaze locked onto the surgical light as she asked at once, “How is Nick?”
Arista froze. For a moment, she didn’t know how to answer. She shook her head, tears threatening to fall again.
“He hasn’t come out yet.”
“He’ll be fine.” Khloe’s voice was low and steady-like she was comforting Arista, or perhaps herself.
Yet her face was completely drained of color. Her hand was clenched so tightly that her knuckles seemed ready to break through her skin.
Arista had a thousand questions she wanted to ask.
But then she noticed Khloe’s thick coat-beneath it, she was only wearing a thin nightdress. Clearly, she had rushed over the moment she heard the news.
Arista hesitated.
Khloe had clearly decided to divorce Nick, yet now she looked more concerned about him than anyone.
And her abdomen was already noticeably round. If she truly did this for herself, she shouldn’t have come here at all to bear such emotional strain.
Just then, the doors of the operating room opened.
Khloe was the first to react. She rushed straight to the bedside.
Nick was still unconscious, with a respirator attached to him. He looked utterly lifeless.
“Doctor, how is he?” Khloe’s eyes never left Nick. Her voice trembled with tension.
“He’s temporarily stable. We still need to observe him,” the doctor replied briefly before transferring him to the
intensive care unit.
Only after confirming Nick was out of immediate danger did Khloe immediately turn to continue questioning the doctor.
“Khloe, what exactly do you think you’re doing?”
George could no longer hold back.
“You were the one who demanded a divorce from Nick. What you choose to do is none of our business, and we don’t want to use Nick to restrain you. But since you’ve decided to abandon him at a time like this, why bother putting on this act now?”
He had suppressed his anger these past few days only because of Nick and the child in Khloe’s womb, as well as Arista’s constant persuasion.
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But if this had been before, with his temper, he would have already demanded an explanation.
How could Nick’s sincerity be treated like this? Was Khloe really so selfish? To bring up divorce at a time like this –it was practically pushing Nick toward death!
“George!” Arista hurriedly stopped him, afraid he would escalate things.
But George pushed her hand away firmly, his eyes bloodshot as he stared straight at Khloe.
“If you’re this heartless, able to abandon Nick at a time like this, then from today onward, you are no longer our daughter-in-law. For Nick and the child in your belly’s sake, I don’t want to make things harder for you, but I hope you never appear in front of Nick or our family again!”
This time, George did not listen to Arista.
Arista looked at Khloe, her shoulders slightly slumped, and all the questions she had been holding back finally spilled out.
“Khloe… do you have some kind of reason you can’t tell us? You know you and Nick truly love each other. He’s at his weakest right now-he really can’t endure this without you. Why are you doing this?”
Khloe lowered her gaze and said nothing for a long moment.
Finally, she spoke softly.
“I’m sorry, Dad. Mom.”
“Don’t call us that!” George snapped coldly, fury still burning in his chest. He immediately ordered Lenny, Lenny, see them out! From now on, no irrelevant people are allowed near Nick.”
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