The door to the ward was opened once more.
Rosalie thought Theodore had returned and didn't expect to see just her two children.
Jake held Chelsea's hand as they approached the bedside. Rosalie looked kindly at them.
"Children, if Mommy were to go, listen to Daddy. And remember, Mommy loves you two forever."
"No," Jake said loudly. "Mommy, you don't love us."
Rosalie was shocked and pleasantly surprised to hear Jake's words.
She was pleasantly surprised to hear Jake call her Mommy, but shocked to hear his claim that she didn't love them.
"Jake, how could Mommy not love you both? I've been dreaming of you over the years, and I only left you just because I was worried about implicating you. I didn't mean to abandon you like that."
Rosalie was filled with endless remorse.
"But you left me anyway. Now that you're finally back, you're unwilling to go for surgery. You're going to die, and you're going to leave me again. You'll leave Chelsea behind too. That's why you don't love us at all."
Rosalie sobbed, "Jake, it's not that I don't want to go for the surgery, but I really can't take your dad's liver."
"Why not? Dad said that the liver could grow again. He's giving you half of his, and both of your livers will grow back. Both of you will live and can stay by Chelsea and my side. Why don't you want that?"
Jake started crying and wiping the tears from his face. "Mommy, you're so selfish. You're going to leave me again. I hate you! I hate you, Mommy!"
"Jake, don't be like this. I'm begging you," Rosalie cried hoarsely.
"Mom, please, I'm begging you. Go for the operation. If you leave me again, I'll hate you for life," Jake said as he sobbed sadly.
Her son's threat broke Rosalie's heart into two.
Her son hated her. How bad a mother was she?
Indeed, she was a bad mother for leaving him for so many years and ending up in such a terrible state where she could leave them anytime.
"Rose, are you agreeing to it?" Theodore had been secretly listening in on their conversation outside the ward.
Upon hearing Rosalie's words, he rushed in with a look of joy.
Rosalie looked begrudgingly at Theodore. "Theo, you succeeded. The two of them are my Achilles' heel. I really can't leave them behind."
Theodore burst into happy tears, sitting on the bedside and wrapping Rosalie and the two children in a bear hug.
After Rosalie signed the agreement, the surgery was held the next day.
Both Rosalie and Theodore were pushed into different operating theaters.
Before they were pushed in, Rosalie and Theodore saw each other when the doctors pushed their beds near each other.
They held their hands tight, looking at each other without saying anything, but the look in their eyes spoke volumes.
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