Dumped My Cheating Ex. Now I'm Sleeping Next to a Billionaire CEO novel Chapter 838

Tyler’s face held its usual gentle calm, but his voice trembled with urgency. “I heard Emmy’s having complications. What’s going on now?”

The moment Teresa saw him, she marched right up and demanded, “Mr. Nelson, did you send someone to pick up Emmy this morning?”

Micah stepped forward too, repeating the chaos from earlier, his eyes wary and guarded as he looked at Tyler.

Tyler listened, shock and confusion clouding his face. “That’s ridiculous.” He snapped his attention to Micah, his tone sharp and accusing. “I never sent anyone to get her. Why didn’t you check with me first about something this serious?”

“If anything had happened to Emmy or the baby, would you be able to live with yourself?”

Micah opened his mouth, then shut it, completely at a loss for words.

He knew he’d messed up. Still, something about the whole thing felt wrong. If Mr. Nelson hadn’t sent those people, then who had? Who else could have gotten the information so quickly and used his name to try to take her?

Tyler turned to Teresa, softening, his voice full of apology and reassurance. “Aunt Teresa, please try not to worry. I’ll get to the bottom of this and make sure Emmy gets answers.”

“For now, what matters most is that Emmy and the baby are safe. Let’s wait together.”

Teresa didn’t say anything else. She just paced anxiously by the door, hands pressed tight together, whispering prayers under her breath.

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Inside the delivery room, Emmy was nearly out of strength.

Sweat matted her hair to her pale cheeks. Her lips were colorless, bitten raw. The pain was so intense it felt like she was being ripped apart.

Still, she was only three centimeters dilated.

“Dr. Hall, please give her the epidural. She can’t take much more,” Lorraine pleaded, heartbroken as she watched Emmy suffer.

Dr. Hall checked on her and shook her head. “Hold on a little longer. If we give her pain relief now, it’ll slow things down. The longer it drags on, the more at risk the baby is.”

Lorraine understood, but seeing Emmy’s whole body shaking, the only thing she could do was wipe her sweat and keep checking on her.

Time crawled by. When Emmy finally reached four centimeters, Lorraine tried again. “Dr. Hall, please, now. She needs the epidural.”

This time, Dr. Hall agreed, and the anesthesiologist quickly gave Emmy the injection.

But he wasn’t.

She didn’t know why, but even in the safest place, the fear wouldn’t go away. She was scared she wouldn’t make it. Scared something would happen to the baby. Scared she might never see him again.

James, when will you come back?

Seeing Emmy had calmed down a bit, Lorraine quickly brought a piece of chocolate to her lips. “Here, eat something. You need to keep your strength up.”

Emmy swallowed it without thinking, barely noticing the taste.

Two more hours crawled by.

Suddenly, the pain crashed back, even worse than before. The epidural didn’t help at all now.

Emmy cried out, gripping the sides of the bed so hard her knuckles turned white.

Lorraine rushed over and checked her, her face turning serious as she called out to the team, “Dr. Hall, she’s at ten centimeters. She’s ready.”