Too Late, Mr. Cooper: Your Bride Ran with Your Baby novel Chapter 254

“Liliana...”

“Please, whoever you are, don’t torture her anymore. She’s innocent, she’s innocent...”

“She’s in so much pain, and Liliana hates pain more than anything. Please, make it stop... whatever you want, take it out on me.”

“The one who deserves to be punished is me. It’s always been me, and only me... Please, spare her and punish me instead, okay? Please...”

Linton’s eyes filled with fragile, helpless tears.

He didn’t know who he was begging. It didn’t matter who, as long as they could save his little girl.

Anyone...

Really, just stop torturing her...

Please...

Please...

A low creak sounded.

The emergency room door, for the thousandth time, slowly swung open.

Linton stared, dumbfounded, at the hopeless scene behind the door.

His Liliana.

All alone, lying on the cold operating table, covered in blood.

“...”

“Ahhhhhh!”

A shattered, animalistic roar ripped from Linton’s throat as he clutched his head.

His mind finally broke, his will destroyed by the despairing dream.

His shrill scream echoed endlessly through the dim, silent hospital corridor.

With a soft chime, the scene around him instantly changed.

Linton was back at the beginning.

His eyes contracted sharply. He stared blankly at the closed emergency room door, his gaze hollow and lost.

Once again, he heard the faint, muffled sound of the little girl’s crying.

Again and again.

Over and over.

It was like a cold serpent, coiling tightly around him, like an interwoven net, suffocating him with despair.

Linton knelt there, stunned.

Lucas, however, had called several times, begging her to just take a look.

He said Linton seemed to be trapped in a nightmare while unconscious.

As if afraid she wouldn’t believe him, Lucas described the scene in detail: Linton’s brow was perpetually furrowed, his face deathly pale, and tears constantly streamed from the corners of his eyes.

In his sleep, he called her name over and over again, his voice filled with terror, despair, helplessness, and confusion.

Hearing this, Liliana simply refused.

“I’m sorry, Lucas, but I don’t believe I have any obligation to visit him at the hospital.”

Lucas was miserable. He knew the whole story between them, but he gritted his teeth and tried again.

“Miss Hart, I’m begging you. Just come for a moment. You can leave right after.”

Lucas opened his mouth, then hesitated, his voice bitter. “Mr. Cooper... he seems to be having a nightmare...” a nightmare about you.

Lucas didn't get to finish his sentence.

Liliana cut him off. A faint, mocking smile touched her lips as she spoke calmly.

“Lucas.”

“Nightmares...”

“Who hasn’t had them?”