Prosperous Marriage: Married to My Brother-in-law-Chapter 440 - 439_1
"It hurts so much!" The woman burst into tears upon seeing her boyfriend.
She had been over three months pregnant when she came in for the abortion. Since the fetus was already formed, she underwent a dilation and curettage procedure.
Perhaps the anesthetic was insufficient, or it wore off too soon; the woman felt an excruciating pain.
The man kept whispering comforting words to her as they walked into a ward together.
They, too, felt they had no choice. They weren’t married yet, their jobs were unstable, and the pregnancy was unexpected. They wanted to keep the baby but couldn’t afford to, so they chose not to have the child.
The woman, having suffered such physical and mental trauma, would likely never forget the child she had cruelly abandoned, especially if she were to become a mother in the future.
Some, like Adele Horne, had just become pregnant and chose a medical abortion.
The sisters-in-law witnessed a young woman who had opted for a medical abortion collapse as she emerged from the restroom. She looked pure and innocent, almost like a student, but then...
Her friend, who had accompanied her, turned ashen with fright.
Adele Horne tightly grasped Julia Bluen’s hand, her own face turning as pale as the young woman’s friend. Was an abortion really that terrifying? Nowadays, aren’t all abortions painless? Could it still hurt that much? Adele didn’t know much, and what she saw frightened her.
Unable to help herself, she quietly approached a ward. She knew it was where the woman who had undergone the dilation and curettage procedure was staying.
Peering through the window, she saw the woman still weeping in pain on the hospital bed.
"Next time, I must give birth to my child. Even if we are poor, I won’t have an abortion again... It was twins, the doctor said—a boy and a girl..."
The woman sobbed to her boyfriend, sharing her agony.
"It hurts! Do you know? It hurts so much! Those two children had been living happily inside me for over three months. I feel we are so cruel... so very cruel... The children are innocent... How could we, as parents, so cruelly rob them of their right to be born..."
Hearing the woman’s sobs, Adele subconsciously covered her own abdomen. Inside her, a little life was also happily thriving. Was she really going to be so cruel as to terminate it, to deprive it of its right to be born?
"Adele," Julia Bluen walked over and pulled Adele along, saying that Glades Horne was looking for them.
Adele let herself be led by Julia, like a puppet.
That couple had decided to terminate their three-month pregnancy—twins, no less—because of their difficult lives. Yet she, even as a single mother, would still be in a good position to raise her child to adulthood on her own. Compared to others, she seemed fortunate. That man... she couldn’t remember his face, didn’t know what he looked like. But from what little memory she retained, he seemed to have cherished her greatly, not just acted out of pure lust. Most importantly, he had left her a costly necklace. It bore his surname or first name, suggesting it was something he always carried. By leaving it with her, did it mean he might come back for her someday?
When Adele finally came to her senses, she found herself lying on the procedure table.
She lay there, pale, on that procedure table that had seen countless women, that had been the site where many little lives were heartlessly extinguished. Looking at the doctor before her, she noted the doctor was kind and reassuring, comforting her, "You don’t need to be nervous, don’t be afraid. The procedure only takes five minutes. Just bear with it for a while."
After comforting her, the doctor began to prepare the instruments.
The cold gleam from the clinking tools sent shivers down her spine.
"Please, take off..." The doctor turned to look at Adele, about to ask her to remove her pants, when Adele, pale as death, suddenly jumped off the table like a woman possessed and ran outside.
"Hey... you aren’t going through with it?" The doctor didn’t know her surname was Horne.
Her superiors had only instructed her to treat Adele Horne well; they hadn’t mentioned Adele’s identity.
"I’m not doing it..." Adele’s frantic voice echoed back, as if she feared the doctor would chase her down and force her.
She had made her decision: she wasn’t going to have the abortion.
No matter who the child’s father was, the child was hers, and she was going to give birth to him! Even if the path ahead meant facing storms she could never imagine, she was willing to endure it all. Because the child was innocent! In this world, one more single mother hardly made a difference. She promised herself that from now on, she would never again entertain the thought of not wanting her child. She would greet the child’s arrival with as much joy as her sister-in-law did!
Seeing Adele Horne rushing out in a panic, Julia Bluen immediately guessed what had happened.
Before Julia could ask a question, Adele grabbed her, urgently saying, "Sister-in-law, let’s go, let’s leave this place right away!"
Looking deeply at her, seeing the determination in her eyes, Julia nodded firmly and said, "Alright, I’ll take you away from here right now!"
