A Moment in Destiny

Chapter 195 What Is Love?

Listening to the sound of choking by Liam, Sarah didn’t understand why her heart throbbed again and her heart was hurt again at the moment when she once thought that it wouldn’t be painful anymore.

“Just say what you want to say, I can accept it!” She said.

Holding her tightly, Liam said slowly, “Silly girl, why don’t you tell me that it was you on that night six years ago? Why have I misunderstood you for so many years?”

Sarah immediately became nervous. “You, you know it?”

Her voice trembled and her whole body froze.

Hugging her tightly while choking, “Why don’t you tell me that you have a child?”

Upon mentioning the child, Sarah turned even more nervous and her body trembled violently in addition with severe pain on her face which showed an indescribable expression.

“Sarah?”

Sarah pushed him away violently while shaking her head. “Go away, I don’t want to see you again! Never!”

She then turned around immediately but was hugged by Liam from behind. “Don’t be like that, Sarah, I’m wrong!”

Pleading voice appeared in his low raspy noise. Liam closed his eyes and buried his face in her shoulders, his hands wrapped around her waist tightly which made him clear that he loved Sarah, and it was just that he had always avoided himself from facing the truth.

Sarah was powerless as her back was pressed into his arms which made her body turn softer. Subsequently, large teardrops rolled down from her eyes and she gaped soundlessly.

The teardrops fell on Liam’s hand and he felt that hot teardrops scald his heart, “Don’t cry, I will get our baby back!”

“He’s dead!” Sarah cried out in pain. “Where are you going to find him for me?”

Liam’s hands trembled and his heart ached violently as he was shocked by what he had heard.

Sarah then turned back and wrapped around his neck, a heartbreaking cry burst out from her throat. “Damn it! Damn it! My baby was gone and do you know how hard it was when I needed you? Do you know it? There is nothing I can do…Boohoo…”

Her sobs left Liam dumbfounded and his heart was twisted with pain.

“No! What are you saying, Sarah?”

“He is dead, he is dead…” Sarah’s fist slammed hard on his chest as she hated so much about herself and her fate. “He is dead, my baby is dead!”

Liam froze when the fist was slammed down on his body and he was puzzled about why was this happening? He suffered in silence while hugging her tightly, “Sarah, Sarah…”

Ashley was startled when she heard such a pathos cry at midnight and she ran out immediately as she was afraid of waking up the neighbors. “Come in please! How can you cry outside at midnight?”

Liam went speechless before he mournfully carried Sarah into the living room.

Sarah kept bawling as if she wanted to cry out the grievance of all these years at once.

Ashley thoughtfully gave them the space while going upstairs herself before she said, “The second room upstairs belongs to Sarah, don’t leave here tonight as it’s too late! Just rest here once the problem is solved!”

“Thanks!” Liam nodded instinctively but inside he was in a state of turmoil.

“He is dead…” Sarah cried desperately. “Our baby died, he died! He only lived for one day and then he died!”

“No way! How could he die? Sarah, Lucille said that Darcy Mclean stole the baby, how could he die?” Liam awoke from stagnation.

Sarah froze. “What… what do you say?”

Liam explained urgently, “It was Lucille who said that Darcy had stolen the baby!”

“No way, no, I saw my baby dying with my own eyes. When I woke up, the baby was out of breath, it couldn’t be!” Sarah shook her head and tears streamed out again. “He is so small…”

“Sarah, think carefully!” Liam didn’t believe that the child was gone, he couldn’t believe it even if he died.

It was the time when she left home moneyless for seven months in order to give birth in a private clinic as she was unable to go to the hospital. The doctor who helped her to deliver the baby said that the baby was congenitally malnourished and had been born with poor breathing. In addition, she became weaker after the childbirth, so she was unable to take care of the child. When she woke up, she then fainted again when the doctor told her in tears that the baby was dead and held the baby for her to see. Being worried that she would be desperate and sorrowful, the doctor then told her that she had sent the baby to the crematorium and the ashes had been sent to her.

“Wait Sarah!” Liam sensed something wrong. “Cremation needs a proof, how can she help us privately without a proof? It’s not right!”

“Does it need a proof?” Sarah asked while lifting her little face. “So, what you mean is that the baby is still alive? How can Darcy steal my baby? I don’t even see her!”

“There is nothing wrong as it is told by Lucille. The baby was stolen by Darcy, I think we need to go back to that clinic now and find the doctor who has a problem!” Liam held her hands. “Let’s go and find him! Where is the clinic?”

“In G City! But she is gone, I’ve been looking for her but I can’t find her and the clinic is closed. Someone says she has gone back home but no one knows where her old home is!”

“That’s even more telling!” Liam could conjecture that Darcy had bribed the doctor and swapped the baby, or she might have done something special that made Sarah believe that the baby died.

“So, is the baby really alive?” Sarah couldn’t believe it as she always thought that her baby had died, and all these years, every time when she saw someone else’s baby, she would be sad and upset.

“Well! I am convinced that the baby is still alive!” Liam said with certainty.

Sarah suddenly grabbed his hand nervously. “Let’s go and find Darcy, let’s go and ask her! I need to settle the score with her, how could she steal my baby!”

Wiping her tears, she then stood up.

Liam froze, “Sarah, Darcy was dead!”

The moment when these words were uttered, Sarah froze. “What do you say? She is dead?”

“Let me tell you this in detail later, Sarah, have you been in the G City for the year when you disappeared?” Liam felt his heart ache when he thought about it, he was such a jerk, how could something like this happen?

Sarah lifted her eyes which were swollen from crying and looking at him, then she lifted her hand and held it out in front of Liam’s face. Liam was puzzled but lowering down his head, then he saw a deep scar on Sarah’s hand when Sarah turned her hand over. His heart tightened and a sharp pain came. “Have you cut your wrist to commit suicide?” Belonging © NôvelDram/a.Org.

Closing her eyes and teardrops sliding out, Sarah then nodded. “I thought about dying when my baby was gone but I didn’t know who sent me to the hospital and I couldn’t find him. When I woke up after three days, the doctor didn’t tell me that it was a man who saved me and the guy didn’t even leave his name, what he only did was that he just helped me to pay for the hospital bill. When I thought of the baby and went back to that clinic, the doctor was gone too!”

“That’s even more telling, let’s go and find that doctor, I am sure we can find him! No! Let’s go and find Lucille! She said before the baby is still alive!”

Liam took her hand and told her what had happened on the way to the hospital.

Sarah had never had a good feeling about Darcy, it was only that six years ago at the hotel in H City where Darcy’s behavior had hurt her, but she didn’t hate Darcy because she loved Liam too much. But she didn’t expect her to steal her baby, did she bribe the doctor at that private clinic? She didn’t know whether she should hate her or not when she heard the news of Darcy’s suicide but she felt that it was really true to the saying, “What is love in this world? That means lovers vow to stick together in life and death.”

Sarah sat in the car silently while Liam was driving with one hand and held her small hand with another. “We can definitely find the baby, is our baby a boy or a girl?”

“It is a boy!” Sarah choked out as she was unable to tell what was going on in her heart at that moment. Surprise, apprehension and a range of complicated emotions bubbled up. “But there are so many people, where can I find him?”

***

In the hospital.

It was already dawn when Liam brought Sarah to the hospital again.

Liam was so tired as he stayed up all night and experienced so many things. Holding Sarah’s hand, both of them together appeared in front of Lucille and Reggie.

“Lucille! Is what you said true? Is my child still alive?” Sarah’s voice trembled as she was afraid of hearing words that would make her desperate.

Could she have any more illusion? Was her child still really alive?

Biting her lips, Lucille nodded her head. “Yes, Sarah, the baby is really stolen by Darcy, but, I don't know where the baby is sent by her, all I know is that the baby is not dead, it's healthy, and it's a very cute boy!”

“So is my child still alive?” Sarah’s heart was surprised, but instantly it went cold again, the child could not be found and Darcy was dead, where had her child gone?

“Sarah, don’t be anxious, you can definitely find him!” Lucille comforted her.

As soon as Sarah was sure that the child was still alive, hope and desire to see her child immediately rose up inside her heart.

“Sarah, I will find it, don't worry! Let's go home now and find daddy!”

Sarah walked out of the ward where the corridor was crowded and full of the smell of disinfection water, she stood there and her vision turned confused, ‘Where was the baby?’

Liam took her hand, “Sarah, the baby can definitely be found!”

“Daddy will get angry!” Sarah shook her head. “I don’t want him to know!”

“I am here, he wouldn’t be angry!” Liam assured.

She then looked at Liam and asked faintly, “Are you looking for me because of the baby? I don't want to go home, I want to go to the Jones family!”

She didn’t know how to face it, if he was looking for her because of the baby, she wouldn’t be together with him as she didn’t want to make daddy Brooks angry and humiliated as they had brought her home from the orphanage and given her so much love.

“Sarah, let’s get married!” Liam gazed deeply into her little face. “We will get married when we find the baby!”

“What if we can’t find him?”

“Impossible!”

It was still for the sake of the child! Sarah smiled bitterly, “No!”

“Sarah!” Liam yelled in a low voice.

“I want to go back to sleep, I'm so tired, you said you'd help me find the baby, please help me find him, okay?” She never begged and looked at him pleadingly.

Liam froze for a moment. “It's my baby too! Let's go home, back to our home!”

“No!”