On the day of my daughter's surgery, my husband, the surgeon in charge, was late.

I was worried that if she didn't have the surgery, my daughter's body wouldn't be able to take it.

I begged my husband's enemy to save my daughter.

But before we could complete the transfer of my daughter to another hospital, she died of heart failure.

I looked at her eyes, which I could never open again, and I felt my heart die because my daughter was gone.

When I came up from the morgue, I ran into my husband, Aaron Turner, hugging his mistress, Elodie Sinclair, and coaxing her.

"Your tests show that you're just having heart palpitations. Don't worry. You'll be fine."

I rushed forward angrily and slapped him.

"Aaron, is this the reason why you left our daughter alone on the operating table?

"Do you know that because of you, our daughter will never be able to stand in front of us again!"

But he refused to believe it. "Nonsense. In order to win favor, you actually cursed our daughter!"

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I slapped Aaron.

I took back my trembling hands and said angrily.

"Aaron, you know that there are only two people in Cladeland who can perform Audrey's heart surgery. At this time, you leave her on the operating table alone and go to meet your lover in secret. You're so cold."

Aaron, who was still stunned, showed anger on his face after hearing what I said.

But before he could speak, Elodie at the side spoke first.

"Fiona, you misunderstood. It was because I was sick that Aaron quit his job to come and see me. It's my fault. I apologize to you. Please don't be angry with him."

After she finished speaking, her eyes turned red, and she was about to cry.

Her pitiful appearance made Aaron, who was initially angry, look affectionate for a moment.

He patted Elodie's shoulder and glared at me.

"Fiona, don't always blame others for what happened between us. I asked the doctor who examined Audrey yesterday. Her condition is not as serious as you said. It's okay for her to have surgery a few days later."

Seeing my pupils shrink suddenly, he thought I was guilty and said coldly.

"You heard Elodie call me this morning, right? Because of jealousy, you lied to me and said that our daughter had an enlarged heart and needed immediate surgery. Fiona, how did you become like this?"

His words hurt me.

In an instant, I couldn't speak.

Once upon a time, Aaron, Elodie, and I, the three of us, were good friends who could confide in each other.

At that time, Elodie had just transferred from another city.

In unfamiliar situations, she always looked timid.

After that, I made friends with her and made her meet Aaron.

At first, Aaron was always a little impatient with Elodie.

He said Elodie was more delicate than others and not as carefree as me who could play with them.

At that time, I got angry with him several times because of Elodie.

But I didn't know since when Aaron added a bottle of milk for Elodie with the ice juice, he brought me every day.

On the basketball court, he saw me waiting for him with a drink in my hand, but he was still the first to snatch the water from Elodie's hand.

When I asked him, he snickered and said, "I've changed my taste recently and want to drink water."

Later, after the college entrance examination, Aaron and Elodie started dating.

In order to hide my love for Aaron, I applied for a business degree thousands of miles away from home.

Everyone thought that the two of them would be together until the end.

In her senior year, Elodie abandoned Aaron and dated a rich man in order to stay in school.

Their relationship ended so hastily.

After graduation, Aaron and I got in touch again because of a party.

Once, when he was drunk, Aaron said with wet eyes that he had nothing now.

He asked me if I was willing to accompany him and stand with him like before.

I looked at his slightly shaking shoulders as he held me, and I couldn't help but nod.

Later, after marrying me, Aaron became a famous cardiac surgeon in Cladeland.

But the rich man that Elodie chose had nothing because his family went bankrupt.

Elodie naturally cut off contact with her boyfriend just like she abandoned Aaron.

But just when I thought I had happiness, I found that Aaron and Elodie were in contact again.

Because of this, I got angry with Aaron more than once.

But what I saw was his increasingly cold expression.

And Audrey Turner was like a ray of light in my dark life.

On those countless nights, she used her tender and soft little hands to soothe my broken heart.

But such a wonderful girl, Audrey, was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy last month and needed an artificial heart transplant.

There were only two people in Cladeland who could perform this operation.

After hearing about our daughter's condition, Aaron naturally became her attending physician.

But I never knew that Aaron would actually abandon his daughter for that woman.

Thinking of this, when I looked at the person opposite me, my eyes turned cold.

"Aaron, let's get a divorce."

Aaron looked stunned for a moment.

Then, he looked at me with disdain as if he had heard a joke.

"Fiona, stop that. In addition to crying and making a fuss, you are now even using the trick of asking for a divorce. Elodie is sick and came to our hospital for a check-up. I'm going to see what's wrong with her. Have you forgotten that Elodie was once your good friend? Don't you care about her health? If you keep making trouble, I will really divorce you, and then I won't give you the custody of Audrey!"

When he mentioned Audrey, I felt angry. When I spoke again, my voice trembled a little.

"Aaron, is this the reason why you left Audrey alone on the operating table?

"Do you know that because of you, Audrey will never be able to stand in front of us again?

"Our daughter is dead!"

But Aaron didn't believe it at all

"Fiona, don't say nonsense. In order to win favor, you actually cursed your daughter. Fiona, you are not worthy of being Audrey's mother!"

Elodie also said, "Yes, Fiona. I explained to you a long time ago that there is nothing between Aaron and me. Aaron rushed here when he heard that I was sick. He was just too worried about me. Don't take it to heart!"

I didn't want to watch Elodie acting, and I didn't want to compete with her for this man.

At this moment, I just want to take Audrey home.

I contacted the hospital and wanted to take Audrey's body for cremation.

However, the hospital told me that Audrey had signed an organ donation agreement before her death.

Her body would be donated to more people in need.

But when her body was taken away, I was dumbfounded.

Opposite me, the person who came to collect Audrey's body was Elodie.

When she saw me, Elodie was obviously stunned for a moment.

Then, she returned to her usual delicate look.

"Fiona, I know you are hostile to me, but this time, I am here on behalf of the medical school to collect the cadavers for students' surgical training."

Elodie's words shocked me.

I held the hospital staff in disbelief.

"What's going on? Didn't my daughter sign a donation agreement before she died to donate her organs? Why was her body donated to the school for experiments?"

When I said this, the expression on my face was distorted, and even the staff next to me were a little scared.

Elodie's face flashed with glee when I told her the body was Audrey.

The staff member stammered, "Audrey's family, please calm down. Audrey signed both organ donations and body donations before her death. But now that she has been dead for more than 24 hours, we can't perform an organ transplant. So we contacted the affiliated university to bring Audrey's body back for students to do surgical training."

Seeing that I was still angry, the staff member comforted me.

"Although Audrey's organs can no longer be alive in other people's bodies, she has made great contributions to medical science with her own body. Please accept my condolences."

"No, I don't agree!" I screamed and pushed Elodie away. "You did it on purpose, didn't you? You knew how important the surgery was to Audrey, but you deliberately called Aaron away. You just wanted Audrey to die, didn't you?"

At this moment, Elodie put aside her delicate appearance and said in a voice that only the two of us could hear.

"Fiona, do you think that when I'm gone, you can take advantage of the opportunity to snatch Aaron away? It's impossible. No matter when, as long as I come back, he will come back to me obediently. So what if you have a child? I was able to snatch him away in my senior year of high school, and the same now. Not only that, I want you to watch your most beloved daughter lying in my laboratory, watch my knife cut into her body. But you are unable to do anything. Even if you want to worship her in the future, you have to come and beg me."

Before she could finish, I raised my arm and slapped her.

But just as I raised my sleeves and was about to give her a second slap, I was grabbed.