Pregnant I left him To His First Love novel Chapter 176

Adaline goes upstairs to Darren’s room and she looks at her husband lying lifeless on his bed, several drips connected to his pale and thin body. The vibrant energetic man she once used to know is but a shadow of himself now.

She is sad that he is in this condition but even more sad that despite his illness, he has maintained his stand to not speak a word to her or Tatum because of what happened to Leila.

He firmly believes that Leila did not commit any of the crimes she is accused of as Leila is a kindhearted woman and a good person. She never knew that what happened to Leila could make him so bitter towards them but to not have spoken to his fated mate and wife for over five years is enough proof of that.

It is the more reason she is unhappy with Carmela, she hoped that Carmela would have given them another heir by now to soften Darren’s anger but it is obvious that despite Carmela being Tatum’s fated mate, his heart is still with Leila.

She often wonders if she did the right thing, choosing the fated over the chosen but only time will tell now.

She hears a knock on the door before a woman steps in, a doctor in white coat with a face mask covering her face and dark sunglasses covering her eyes. There is something quite familiar about the woman, especially her scent.

“Who are you?” She asks.

The woman ignores her and opens the small pack she’s carrying, bringing out syringes.

“Did you not hear me?” She asks, watching the lady carefully.

She knows this person from somewhere.

“I’d like to treat my patient alone, if you don’t mind,” the woman replies coldly, her voice muffled from behind the facemask.

Darren turns to her with a cold look in his pale eyes and she takes a deep breath to calm the pain that charges at her heart from his look before she leaves the room.

“I knew you’d come,” Darren says, groaning in pain and laboured breath as he adjusts into a sitting position. “Nice touch with the mask and glasses but I’ll recognize you even in pitch darkness, Leila.”

Leila takes off her glasses and the tears she has been holding back falls from her eyes. She cannot believe what her eyes are seeing.

“It’s okay father,” Leila smiles down at him. “I'm sure he is happy with his new woman.”

She doesn’t need a soothsayer to tell her that Tatum and Carmela’s relationship is far from happy with everything that she has witnessed so far but it hardly concerns her.

Tatum made his choice and now he gets to live with it.

“Happy indeed,” Darren’s weak voice drips with sarcasm before his eyes turn gloomy and his breath ragged as he throws his head down in difficulty.

“Lie back down,” Leila holds his frail frame, her heart battered with sadness as she feels his bones without any real muscles when she holds him and lays him on his back.

“Your child. Tatum told me what happened, I am very sorry for your loss.”

Leila stares at him for a moment, wondering if it is wise to tell him the truth or allow him to keep believing the lie.