Unexpected Blessing After Divorce

Chapter 284

After a brief pause, he said sternly, “Did you have a fight with someone?”

“Dad!” Xander’s eyes shot daggers at Zavier as he hissed angrily, but he seemed to have overdone it and hurt the wound on his face with all that movement. So instead, he donned a weak grin and pointed at his face with a trembling hand. “Does this look like I fought with someone? Besides, I’m not a child anymore; I’m done fighting with other people!”

Feeling pain was his greatest fear. He would rather kneel and beg for mercy than try to start fights he knew he wouldn’t win.

Zavier’s face softened a little at that. “Then, tell me. Just… Just what in the world happened to you?”

“How would I know? I’m even more confused than you right now.” Xander was dumbfounded. But he went through the sequence of events in his head again and said. “Just as I got off the car, someone hit me from behind, and I fainted. I have no memory of anything that happened after that.”

Xander continued, “When I woke up, there were injuries all over my body, and everything hurt.” As he thought about that, he started to cry again and turned toward Isabella. “Mom, you have to help me. Look at what they did to your son; you can’t just let the culprit go.”

Isabella was as furious as she was worried. “How can I help you like this? You don’t even know who hit you.”

Zavier looked at the two of them wordlessly, then turned around and walked out of the ward. After thinking for a bit, he took out his phone and was about to make a call when it suddenly rang in his hand. When he saw the name of the caller, his eyes flickered with emotion.

He stared at his phone for a brief moment before raising it to his ear. “Chris.”

Christopher merely said, “I heard Xander was admitted to the hospital. Is it serious?”

Zavier snorted and chuckled drily. “You’re well-informed, Chris. In such a short amount of time, you managed to sniff out that Xander had been admitted to the hospital.”

To that, Christopher replied, “Can’t I be worried about my relatives?”

Zavier didn’t say anything more. He already had a vague idea of how Xander got hurt.

Christopher continued, “I’ll wait until dawn, Zavier. If Roe’s still not home by 8 a.m. tomorrow, it wouldn’t be just Xander’s legs that are broken.”

And before Zavier could speak, Christopher had already hung up the phone.

As soon as Zavier heard the phone call ended, his expression darkened horribly. and his contorted features trembled with anger. “First, he came to my house to say some nice, sincere words. Then, with a turn of his head, he ordered someone to break my son’s legs. What a perfect display of deference before violence,” Zavier mused.

Zavier paced back and forth in the quiet corridor with a gloomy face. Finally, he whipped out his phone again and called his eldest son, Logan.

On the other side, Logan was lying on his bed. However, he was unable to fall asleep due to overexcitement.

Although he noticed the incoming call, he didn’t answer it immediately. He turned around and looked at Josie, who was fast asleep. Only then did he pick up his phone, lift the blanket, slide out of bed, and walk out of the bedroom to answer Zavier’s call.

“Dad, it’s so late—”

Before Logan could finish his words, Zavier interrupted him, “Is Roe with you?”

Sensing that Zavier’s tone was off, Logan didn’t speak immediately. After a while, he leaned against the handrail in the corridor and asked casually, “Dad, you called me so late at night for this?”

Zavier ignored all that and sternly ordered his son, “I don’t care what you were planning to do to him; send Roe back to the Solace residence right away!”

Logan frowned, confused about his father’s words. So, he explained his plans to Zavier, word by word, and said, “Dad, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. As long as Christopher’s son is in our hands, he won’t be able to do anything!”

He didn’t believe Christopher would dare to do anything when his son’s safety was compromised.

“You idiot!” Zavier cursed, loosening his necktie as his anger flared. Pacing back and forth impatiently, he continued, “Why did I give birth to such a useless son like you? If you were half as talented as Kendrick, I wouldn’t be doing things so passively now!”

Hearing that, Logan’s face darkened immediately.

Zavier had been comparing him with Kendrick since he was a child. As Kendrick was a few years older than him, he was always living in his brother’s shadow when he was growing up. In Zavier’s eyes, he was a useless piece of trash-a person who couldn’t do anything.

He bit back at his father immediately, “Yeah, I’m not as good as Kendrick. But half of it is your responsibility, no? If my father’s genes weren’t even good, to begin with, what could I do as his son? If I could, I’d choose another father!”

After saying that, Logan calmed himself down and said, “If you have nothing better to do, you should just sleep earlier!”

“Sleep?” Zavier sneered coldly. “How do you expect me to sleep when both of your brother’s legs are broken due to your stupidity?”

Meanwhile, Isaac had added some sleeping medicine to Yuliana’s cup of salt water, letting her sleep for hours on end. And as the effects of the medicine faded away, she fell into a dream.

In the dream, Yuliana heard Rowan crying. His sobs went on and on, the sound breaking her heart each time it rang out.

Although Rowan’s crying seemed to come from nearby, she couldn’t find any trace of him even after searching through every corner. Only the sound of his crying was present.

The anxiety she felt was soul-crushing.

Soon, the sounds of crying slowly faded away, which stunned her momentarily. Then, a deeper fear rose from the depths of her heart. That prompted her to run around again, continuing her crazed search for Rowan. C0pyright © 2024 Nôv)(elDrama.Org.

And finally, she found him.

Rowan was lying in a crib wearing a light blue shirt. She tiptoed over and stared lovingly at Rowan’s chubby face, her whole heart seemingly melting in that instant just by looking at her baby.

“Oh, Roe. Mom’s little Roe.”

Yuliana smiled and touched Rowan’s face gently.

However, her expression shifted in the next second.

A thought crept into her mind, “Why is he so cold?”

Yuliana quickly placed her palm flat on Rowan’s face, which was as cold as ice.

She panicked and tried to press her forehead against Rowan’s. And that was when she realized that Rowan wasn’t breathing at all.

Time seemed to stop at that instant.

Yuliana seemed to have frozen as well.

After a while, she carefully backed away and placed a finger under Rowan’s nose… And at that moment, Yuliana’s mind broke down.

She picked Rowan up and held him tightly in her arms. The pain in her chest was unbearable, and her mouth gaped open in a soundless scream. She felt like crying, but she couldn’t. The veins on her forehead bulged as if her head was about to explode.

A moment later, a wet, tearing sound ripped out of her throat, and tears began to fall from her eyes.

After Christopher returned, he sat by the bed and watched Yuliana quietly, his mind filled with many thoughts.

But suddenly, the woman on the bed burst into tears. Her small face became contorted, and her arms were tucked in front of her chest tightly. She seemed like she had just experienced an extremely dreadful dream.

Christopher grabbed her hands and whispered softly, “Ana.”

Yuliana tried to escape from his grasp, struggling fiercely in her sleep. Christopher simply pulled her up from the bed and held her tightly in his arms wordlessly. He didn’t move a muscle, even when she scratched and clawed at him, and a sad cry erupted from her mouth.

Christopher raised his eyes from her and stared at the head of the bed. Clenching his teeth, he raised a hand and gently stroked the back of Yuliana’s head. He murmured gently, “Wake up, Ana. It’s just a nightmare. Just wake up, and it’s all going to be all right.”