Save My Children
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Being driven out by Silas was something Elena hadn’t expected.
Over the next few days, she tried every indirect way she could think of to push the divorce forward. But Silas gave no response.
He could afford to wait.
Her body could not.
She was carrying twins. Her belly would show sooner or later. She didn’t dare imagine what Silas might do if he found out she was pregnant.
He wouldn’t let Sabrina suffer. But he would never consider that these might be the only children she would ever have.
Days passed. Her belly grew more noticeable.
With no reply from him, Elena had no choice. She left a letter behind and disappeared.
That evening, when Silas returned from the company, the butler rushed out in a panic.
“Sir, something’s wrong. Elena went through your study and left this letter. She’s gone!”
Sabrina, who had just stepped out of the car, stiffened. She grabbed Silas’s arm.
“This is bad, Silas. She must have stolen confidential documents from your study. You need to bring her back immediately. What if she sells them to one of the Crowe family’s competitors?”
Silas said nothing. He took the letter.
The handwriting was neat and familiar.
In it, Elena wrote that she didn’t want her first love to suffer anymore. Since Silas refused to divorce her, she had decided to elope with the man she loved.
At the end, she wished him and Sabrina happiness.
A storm gathered in Silas’s dark eyes.
Sabrina kept talking beside him, her voice sharp with urgency.
The butler asked cautiously, “Sir… should we bring her back?”
Silas tightened his grip on the letter, his voice low and cold.
“Bring her in.”
Sabrina’s confident smile faltered for a brief moment.
…
A snowy night.
The moon hung cold and distant. Wind howled through the empty streets.
Elena ran barefoot across the frozen ground, dressed in nothing but a thin dress. The milk and bread she had just bought from a convenience store lay scattered behind her.
“Don’t let her get away!”
“Catch her!”
“She can’t escape this time!”
The shouts and pounding footsteps behind her drew closer with every second.
Her face, once pale and delicate, was now stripped down to raw desperation.
Five months.
She had been on the run for five months, and Silas’s men had finally found her.
Her swollen belly rose heavily beneath the thin fabric. The two lives inside seemed to sense her fear, shifting restlessly. Tears streamed down her face, torn away by the freezing wind.
For her children, she had fled the Crowe family. For five months, she had lived like a stray, hiding, surviving, clinging to life in the shadows.
The icy air tore into her lungs. Every breath burned.
Run.
Faster.
Don’t get caught.
“Got her!”
A large hand shot out from behind, clamping around her arm like iron. Another covered her mouth, smothering her scream.
A van without license plates pulled up silently at the roadside. Ignoring her struggle, the men forced her toward it.
“Hurry up,” the driver urged, his voice tense. “There’s a car coming.”
“Mm—!”
A sudden scream broke out.
The man holding her let out a howl of pain and flung her away.
She had bitten into his palm with all her strength, tearing flesh. Blood poured down his hand.
Elena felt her body go light for a split second before she crashed hard into the snow.
A sharp pain exploded through her abdomen.
Warmth spread instantly, staining her white dress red.
“Damn it, she’s hemorrhaging!”
The driver jumped out, his face draining of color at the sight of blood spreading rapidly across the snow.
“Silas only told us to get rid of the kids. This… this should count as done, right?” the injured man muttered, unease creeping into his voice.
“There’s too much blood. She won’t make it. Let’s go. We can’t be seen!”
He turned to run—
Only to feel something latch onto his ankle.
He froze.
Elena lay in the snow, her face ashen, lips trembling. One hand clutched her stomach, the other gripped him weakly.
Her voice broke as she begged.
“Don’t… don’t go… Please… save my children… I’m begging you… save them…”
Her children.
They hadn’t even seen the light of this world, hadn’t taken a single breath under the sun, and now they were going to die with her in this freezing night.
Elena refused to accept it. She had endured everything. Sabrina had returned, and she had stepped aside without protest. No fighting, no arguing. After three years of marriage, she left with nothing. All she wanted was to keep these two children.
How could he be this cruel?
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