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Naomi hesitated for a while before parting ways for her to go. No matter what words she says to convince her to stay, it still would not persuade her to stay at home.
She watched the young lady dashing into her car, reversing out of the villa and driving off into the dark. She panicked and her fingers trembled.
Things were not going so well for the two couples.
..................
Alexa held the wheels tightly while driving at the fastest speed. Her stomach was perfectly supported with a soft fluffy pillow and her seatbelt was strapped.
Her concentration was fully given to the road and to the car. Alexa shrieked at the amount of cold that showered on her.

“Ray, pick up please. Pick up!” She prayed in her mind while her foot stepped on the brakes of the car.
It took a little while before she could get the correct location of his car. She parked the car at the other side of the road, came down and ran to his car.
The window shattered on the floor and the door was broken. Alexa pulled open the door when it refused to budge.
She wiped the glass with the hem of her blouse, took a look inside and gasped. Half of the wheels and dashboard of the car were soaked with blood. The more she saw the more she gasped.

“Ray ”
She sobbed, pulled open the door and pushed him out of the car. He laid on the floor with his white suit in blood. His forehead, which collected the most fall, still gushed blood. She tore her jacket and tied it over his head.

“Yinyin........ Is that you?”
His voice was heard. Though he had little time before he passed out again, he might as well spend it with his love.

“It is me. Are you.......”
She was interrupted with the furious kiss interlocking their tongues together. He was so immersed in the kiss that he pulled her closer and brought her head to his face.
He broke the kiss and rested his nose on her letting her breathe for some time. Alexa who was stunned about the kiss started with shock.
Little by little, she felt an overbearing weight on her legs. His whole body collapsed finally on her. She struggled to reach for her phone at the other side of the road.
The phone laid beside a pool of water. She shivered and slowly let go of him while making him lay on the ground.
The rain drops fell on her head causing her to sneeze uncontrollably and feel chilly. She took slow steps to the pool of water while holding her head.
Screams and cries suddenly began to visualize right in front of her. Her traumatic past arose again but this time, in a terrible way.

“Mother! Mom.....Don't leave me!”
Her past seventeen self yelled as Yin squatted down next to the pool. Alexa blanched, paled and panted at the vision.
A surge of pain ran across her nerves. She quivered while fighting the urge to pass out.
Her legs were badly scratched on the floor with cuts and sores that brought huge pain to her.
She yelped silently and took the last step her body could take. At last, she was able to get her phone, she dialed 911 and with the beep of her phone, she fainted.

Meanwhile,
Sirens of the ambulance rang with much frequency, echoing round the whole hospital. The doctor and nurses panicked with fear in their hearts and ran up and down.
They rolled Mr. Hudson into the ICU for an immediate surgery and then rolled Alexa into an ER unit.

“Were you able to get any contact with their family members? ”
The doctor asked the nurses and sighed when they nodded. Alexa murmured underneath her breath and suddenly, her eyes flew open to meet herself in the hospital.
She got up, struggled to free herself from the drip on her arm and stopped when the door flew open and a doctor came in.

“Where is he? .........Is he okay?” Stuttering was heard from her voice. the doctor smiled at her.

“You should get some rest, he is out of danger and currently resting. ”
She tried to reduce the patient's worry.

“Can I see him?”

“No you can not. Tomorrow would be fine ”
She switched off the light, raised her blanket up and closed the door only to meet face to face with the devilish and stern Emily.

“Where is my son?”
Immediately, she was led to the ICU room where Ray laid with drips and an oxygen mask on his nose.
His head bandaged with plaster and some white bandages and his face covered with little wounds.
She stared deeply at him as tears dropped down from her eyes. She walked weakly on her feet to his bed side and fell to the ground.
It made her heart to see her only son on the hospital bed.

“Ray ” Emily mumbled to herself while holding his fingers. she breathed out and dried her tears.
It was very devastating to hear from Georgina that her son had a deadly accident and would not be able to survive it.
And if he did, he would either lose his entire memory or perhaps be in coma for a whole year.

“I am so sorry. I am so sorry. It is all my fault .” The tears she fought to keep in, won against her and trickled down her cheeks.
If she had not given birth to him, if she had just aborted him at first, he would not be alive to witness this accident.
Though she admits she had never been a good mother for him, she was willing to try.

“Ray........I am such a bad person!” Emily breathed out, removed her hands from his fingers and rested on the chair. “I know what I am going to do will make you hate me for life but I am willing to risk it. You and Alexa can never be together. It is never going to be possible. ”
She stood up, had a last glance at her attached dripped son and left the room. She was stopped in her tracks by a running female doctor.

“What do you need?” She sniffed in her tears and rubbed her eyes.
The doctor covered her mouth and held herself from gasping out loud. the untouchable and strong hearted woman in the entire world is seen with tears on her cheeks

“Let us go over there to have the discussion. It might not be safe here. ”

She escorted Emily into a dark room, raised the curtains up and lightened the room up.
She pulled out a chair for her to sit down and handed her a black document that boldly wrote DNA.
Emily scrolled through the document, pages by pages, line by line until the end. Her confirmation was right! She really was her sister's daughter.
She had been living on the assumption that Alexa was her half sister's daughter, but now, there was more proof than meets the eye.

“We ran a check on her and found out that it might be dangerous for the baby to live. He has an abnormal number of chromosomes in his DNA which could lead to mutation. ”
She explained further. After taking Alexa's DNA and running some tests on her. There was some mutant virus in her blood which further made her do some thorough tests.

“She is in great danger. Surprisingly, she has lived with the baby for six months without any side effects. I am not sure how long she would live to complete the birth month. The baby needs to go .”
Emily itched her nose bridge while gazing at the window. She was stuck with two options, letting her half sister's daughter die or making her son hate her for the rest of her life.
The black document twirled in her fingers. She observed boldly on the document as it was written again, DNA TEST RESULT.
She sighed in defeat. Though she hated her family to the core for letting her live a tragic life from the start of her childhood, sacrificing Alexa in return would not be the right choice.

“Have the fetus taken away but not killed. Send the fetus to the US and keep it under proper care for the meantime. I will pay every bill that will come from that. ”

“What should I tell the patient when she wakes up?”

“Replace the real with a vegetative one. ”
She stopped the conversation there and left the hospital. At the entrance, Georgina walked out of the car with an umbrella in her left arm. She shielded Emily from the rain as she led her into the car.
Strapping her seatbelt tight, Emily rested her head on the back seat and looked out of the window.
None of these would have happened. Memories of her past flashed right in front of it as she got immersed in it.

Flashback, Forty Six Years Ago.

A loud bang came from the opposite room which was her mother's room. Little Emily got up from the bed, strode down to the last room on the second floor and eaves dropped on their conversation.
She had her tiny ears in between the holes of the door and struggled to hear what they were saying.

“Harper! She is your daughter I promise! I am not someone to deceive you ” Her mother, Abigail Miker pleaded on her knees and her hands on his shirt.
Harper glared at the woman throwing her hands off from the side of his nightwear. The force threw her off balance as she landed on the floor with a great noise.

“I do not care! Take your daughter out of my house!”
His stern and selfish voice made her cry in her thoughts. This man over here was none other than her suitor in her High school.
There was no denial that they both attended the same high school and at the same age got into college.
Harper had always taken a liking towards Abigail ever since highschool and after college, got on one knee and proposed to her. They had been secretly married for more than two years.
Knowing his parents would not accept someone from a lower class than them, he hid her in his house along with his child.
To him, Emily was unplanned at the moment and was a mistake that needed to be gotten rid of.
He stared with utmost hatred towards Abigail, chortling with a devilish tune. His hands were crossed against his shoulders.
Things were not meant to go like this at all. He refused to believe it!

“How many times have we taken a DNA test, huh?! Yet, what did the result get?! None! Yet you dare to say she is my blood!”