Chapter 2 You Are A Jinx

"What about the baby? Where is my grandson?"

The moment Elise woke up, the first thing she heard was the anxious voice of Victor's mother.

'Ah, the baby!'

When Elise thought of the child she had just risked her life to bring into this world, a smile appeared on her face.

Her child! She wanted to see her child.

"Victor, let me have a look at the baby!" Elise was feeling weak from having given birth, but she still struggled to prop herself up into a sitting position. She looked around, but the expected crib was nowhere in sight.

Was the baby in the nursery?

She turned to look at Victor, but he avoided her inquiring eyes. "You have just given birth, and the doctor said that you need a good rest."

Victor's evasive eyes and his habit of licking lips when he was lying made Elise's heart sink. She looked up at him, her eyes cloudy with confusion. "What's wrong? Victor, is there anything wrong with our baby?"

Victor's silence freaked her out even more, and countless scenarios flashed in her mind.

'Is the baby sick? Or is there something wrong with him because of obstructed labor?'

"Victor, say something!"

"Yes! Victor, where is my grandson?" Marion, Victor's mother, was very eager to see her grandson. She didn't understand why he was hesitating, so she urged him to speak up.

Flustered and distracted by the barrage of questions, Victor furrowed his eyebrows. He looked up at Elise, whose face was pale. After a long moment, he swallowed back his guilt and slowly said, "He's dead."

'Dead?

What did he mean?

I heard the baby crying just now. How is he dead?

How could it be possible?'

"Victor, you are lying to me, aren't you?" A wave of dizziness came over Elise. "Victor, please don't crack such a joke. Can you bring him to me?"

"That's right. Victor, don't kid like that!" Marion was starting to feel agitated at his words. How could the baby die? "Didn't the pregnancy tests say that there was nothing wrong with my pregnancy?"

Elise tugged at the hem of Victor's shirt, fervently hoping that it was just a joke. However, his next words sent her straight to hell.

"Elise, calm down. The baby had stayed inside your belly for a really long time. He didn't make it. He died soon after he came out.

The doctor can prove that I didn't lie to you."

Victor's words were like a sharp knife stabbing into her heart. Not a single coherent thought formed in her head.

Elise burst into tears instantly, and her mind went completely blank.

Marion's curses and Victor's attempts to pacify her reached her ears.

They were being loud, but Elise could hardly hear a thing. Suddenly, a slap fell on her face, and the burning pain brought her back to the senses.

"You are a jinx!

It's all your fault, you bitch! You kept pestering Victor. You can't even give birth to a child!

You are good for nothing. Give me my grandson!"

Marion's words pierced Elise's heart.

She had always known that Victor's mother looked down upon her. More than once, Marion had emphasized how undesirable she was as her future daughter-in-law, coming from a poor family and being saddled with similarly poor, useless relatives.

If Elise hadn't been pregnant, Marion would have forced her to break up with her son.

But now, the baby was gone! 'My baby is gone!

How could it be?

It's impossible.'

"No, I don't believe it! My child was here just now. He is still alive. I will find him!"

With those words, Elise threw back the covers and ran outside, disregarding the fact that her body was drained from having just given birth.

She had been to this hospital before-she remembered the way to the nursery, where all newborn babies were housed. 'Victor must be lying! I will bring my baby back myself!'

She stumbled all the way to the nursery, her tears making her eyes blurry and unable to see her surroundings clearly. She hadn't gotten far when she bumped into a man. With how weak she was, she fell to the floor.

She was about to apologize when she heard a baby cry. She raised her head and saw the man holding a baby in his arms.

The baby's cry was exactly the same as what she had heard before she fainted.

'My baby!

That's my child!'

As if she had a telepathy, she knew with bone-deep certainty that the baby in the man's arms was her child.

"My child! That's my son!"

Elise clutched at the man's shirt, tears streaming unceasingly from her red-rimmed eyes.

Frowning, Shepherd Li glanced in disgust at the filthy madwoman at his feet and snapped coldly, "Let go of me."

However, the woman didn't let go and instead grasped his shirt even more tightly. She even tried to grab his arm.

Shepherd's icy gaze became even colder. His body seemed to emit a chill aura, which made the onlookers around them shudder.

Just as Elise was about to reach for the child, Harrow Gong, who came later because he had been handling the formalities, saw a woman in a blood-stained hospital gown pestering his boss. Taking a deep breath, he motioned for bodyguards to take away the crazy woman clinging to his boss.

"Let go of me! That's my child! Give me back my baby!"

As Elise watched her child getting farther and farther away, despair began to erode her sanity but also gave her great strength. She broke free manacle-like grip of her captors and ran quickly to Shepherd, stretching out her hands to take the child back.

However, Victor's arms slid around her from behind before she could touch the baby.

"Elise, calm down! That baby is not your child! Your child is dead!"

Hugging Elise tightly, Victor stroked her back and tried to calm her down. Then, he turned toward Shepherd and apologized, "I'm sorry. My wife has just lost our child and is not in her right mind at the moment. I'll take her away."

'This man is dangerous.'

Although Victor didn't know him, he knew that the hospital didn't usually allow bodyguards to come and go at leisure.

He couldn't afford to offend this man.

Besides, the child in his arms might really be Elise's.

Shepherd took a look at Elise, who was taken away by force. Disgusted, he closed his eyes to block the sight of the blood stains on the floor. Just then, a strange smell mixed with blood lingered in his nose, making him extremely uncomfortable.

His response was visceral, but it was not just physical. That scent teased his mind.

The scent of that woman was very familiar-it was like he had smelled it that night. It was so strange!

However, it didn't matter. He didn't want to stay in such a place for a moment longer.

"Harrow, transfer her to another hospital immediately. Ask her to never come to such a place again.

This place is disgusting!"

Shepherd frowned in disgust.