Chapter 139


    Chapter 139


    After Ivan was taken away by Karl, Kieran took Julie back to the hospital room and locked the door.


    Julie’s face was pale. Kieran moved closer to help her onto the bed, but Julie backed away, eyeing him


    warily, “You’ve been using mine and Ivan’s toothbrush… What’s the big idea?”


    “Get back into bed first,” Kieranmanded.


    All resistance and determination drained from Julie. Under Kieran’smand, she obediently walked


    to the bed, pulled back the covers, and climbed in.


    Kieran sat down next to Julie’s bed and said, “You’ve got acute gastritis because you ate some food


    that was contaminated with bacteria. You’ve been experiencing stomachache and loss of appetite. You


    didn’t even touch the breakfast I had Karl prepare for you on the ne today. Whose stomach is it,


    yours or mine?”


    “Was that a paternity test between me and Ivan?” Julie had been hesitant to ask this question from the


    doorway to the bedside, but eventually she carefully broached the subject.


    Kieran nced at her and replied, “The doctor says you need bed rest. Let’s observe overnight to see if


    you still have symptoms like diarrhea.”


    “Kieran!” Julie was desperate, grabbing Kieran’s cor.


    Kieran took hold of Julie’s hand, pulled it away from his cor, and ced it over his heart.


    Through the thin fabric of his shirt, Julie could clearly feel Kieran’s heart pounding fiercely. It was a


    heart full of life.


    Kieran suddenly looked up at Julie. His eyes seemed to conceal a deep pool, so mysterious it was


    irresistible.


    He said, “Ivan is my son, and yours. He is our child. He is our biological child.”


    His tone was very calm. Julie couldn’t read his well-masked emotions, but her heart was thumping


    faster than usual, as if it was in sync with Kieran’s heartbeat.


    Ivan was her son… How could that be…


    She clearly remembered the small, frail child lying in the ice coffin. It was Kieran who personally told


    her that her child was dead…


    He said it himself!


    Julie shook her head, then forcefully withdrew her hand from Kieran’s chest, vehemently denying it,”


    “Impossible, that’s impossible… He’s dead! You took me to see it yourself. It’s impossible, absolutely


    impossible…”


    Julie lost control of her emotions. She was even more irrational now than when she learned her child


    died on the operating table years ago. Clearly, she was struggling to control her emotions and trying to


    convince herself that her child couldn’t still be alive.


    Before revealing the truth to Julie, Kieran had anticipated that she might lose control of her emotions.


    He reached out, cradling her face in his hands, and looked at her with determined eyes, “There’s so


    much that happened in the past. I can’t exin it all at once, but you need to know that Ivan is our


    child. He’s still alive.”


    “You’re lying to me!” Julie’s eyes were bright as the moon in the deep night. She tried to control her


    emotions, but her voice still trembled, “I heard… you said to save her outside the operating room. You


    said… to save Bertha. I heard it all…”


    Kieran’s hand, which was still cradling Julie’s cheek, didn’t let go. He continued to gently stroke her


    face, trying tofort her.


    He admitted, “I did say ‘save Bertha,’ but…”


    Five years ago, on a stormy night.


    Julie and Bertha were rushed into the operating room together.


    Kieran anxiously waited outside the door.


    After two hours, the hospital dean carefully opened the operating room door, walking towards Kieran.


    He carefully told him, “Mr. Hernandez, the hospital’s blood bank is running low. Ms. Bertha and Mrs.


    Hernandez have the same blood type. We can only save one of the children first. Who should we save


    first, Mrs. Hernandez’s child or…”


    In the delivery room, Julie had cried herself out. All she heard was Kieran outside the door saying,


    “Save Bertha.”


    Hearing this felt like her heart was being ripped from her chest, a pain too great to bear. By the time the


    doctors took the child from her body, she had already cked out and lost consciousness…


    What Julie didn’t know was that the moment the dean was about to turn around and go back to the


    operating room, right before she passed out, theplete conversation between Kieran and the dean


    was, “Save Bertha. I want her to live, but if Mrs. Hernandez dies, I want the entire hospital to go down


    with her!!”


    Unfortunately, Julie didn’t hear hisst words.


    Kieran’s cousin, Payne, took less than two minutes to pull up the entire hospital staff’s blood type


    records and find donors that matched


    Julie and Bertha’s blood types. Julie didn’t know that the first donor was sent to her operating room…


    Kieran revealed the truth to Julie. Julie instinctively shook her head in denial, “I don’t believe it! I don’t


    believe… Bertha’s child is Lucian’s. Ivan is Lucian’s child! He is Lucian’s child!!”


    “There’s too much to exin. I can’t say it all at once. I’m not lying to you. I want you to know that Ivan


    is our son,” Kieran said.


    “Impossible!” Julie looked at Kieran and questioned, “Then what about Bertha’s child? Whose child is


    it? Then why… why did you lie to


    me?”


    “Lucian is still alive. Bertha didn’tmit suicide,” Kieran didn’t borate further, but told Julie the two


    most important points.


    This story was bing more and more absurd…


    Julie’s gaze became unfocused, “Lucian is, dead, he died in a ne crash. That was seven years ago.


    Face the facts! He’s dead!!”


    Whether she was venting at herself or at Kieran with those words, she didn’t know. Julie’s voice was


    hoarse, sounding overly excited.


    There’s something about Kieran that screamed stability and seriousness. It’s hard to ignore. He told


    her, “He’s still alive.”


    “Then where is he? If he’s alive, why hasn’t hee back?”


    Kieran fell silent. His hands, which were holding Julie’s face, let go. Maybe because she got used to his


    warmth, Julie suddenly felt a


    chill on her face….


    After a long silence, he finally answered, “He might not be able toe back…”


    Julie’s no fool, but she didn’t get what Kieran meant by that.


    If he’s alive, why couldn’t hee back?


    It’s rare to see Kieran with such an expression. His eyes were deep and cold, as if his whole soul was


    drowning in loneliness.


    She remembered when they first heard about Lucian’s ne crash, Kieran had the same look. He used


    the smoke from his cigarette to iste himself from the world…


    Julie didn’t ask again.


    She quietly stood up and said, “You lied to me. You’ve been lying to me from the start… Everything


    you’ve done, you’ve lied to me.


    “I once told you I loved you. Joyce, that was true,” he said, sitting on the edge of the bed, grabbing


    Julie’s hand.


    Julie shuddered violently.


    He stood up and hugged her from behind.


    “From the beginning, this was Bertha’s trap,” Kieran started exining what happened that year.


    That year, after Julie got pregnant, she was overwhelmed with joy, until Bertha knelt before her, saying


    she was carrying Kieran’s child, and that she truly loved Kieran. She begged Julie to let her have the


    baby, promising not to mess with Julie’s marriage to Kieran.


    Julie went up to the study to demand an exnation from Kieran.


    Kieran told her to wait for him at home, so she waited like a fool for a full day and night. But in the end,


    she didn’t get an exnation, instead, he acknowledged the child in Bertha’s womb.


    Julie still vividly remembers how she felt back then.


    He asked Julie, “Do you remember what I said then?”


    Although it was a long time ago, Julie would never forget. She answered Kieran, “You said the child in


    Bertha’s womb was of the Hernandez bloodline, so you couldn’t abandon him. You said you couldn’t


    harm the child in Bertha’s womb. All I could think of then was that Lucian had been dead for two years,


    and you were the only Hernandez left. If you said the child was of the Hernandez bloodline, then who


    else could be the father but you?”


    Kieran said, “Bertha showed me the documents rted to her artificial insemination. I had Karl


    investigate those documents that night, and indeed,


    We


    found no ws. Bertha provided many photos of her and Lucian together two years ago, and destroyed


    the remaining frozen sperm of Lucian. She did all this to make me sign the cooperation agreement, the


    one you saw in Oakhurst.”


    Lucian was like a caretaker to Kieran since he was a child. After Kieran believed Lucian died in the


    ne crash, he thought the child in Bertha’s womb was Lucian’s only descendant. To protect this only


    descendant, Kieran had no choice but to ept Bertha’s agreement. Julie could understand this.


    If she were Kieran, she might make the same choice.


    But that doesn’t mean she would forgive everything Kieran did and all his lies.


    However…


    “Why would Bertha do this? What good does it do her?” Julie looked at Kieran, starting to think, “Lucian


    is already dead. Why would she go through artificial insemination to carry Lucian’s child?”


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    What Julie really wanted to ask was: If there were indeed evidence that Bertha was carrying Lucian’s


    child, even if she didn’t force Kieran to sign the agreement, Kieran and she would still take good care of


    her and let her have the baby in peace. Why would she propose that


    contract full of lies?