Footsteps Toward New Beginnings By Ryan Carter 6

Footsteps Toward New Beginnings By Ryan Carter 6 Summary

 

Chaos breaks out in the hospital as Kenneth rushes to Christina’s side, desperate for her help to save Alice, who is hemorrhaging and in critical condition. Kenneth reveals that the blood bank lacks Rh-negative blood and only Christina can save Alice by donating. Christina, however, coldly refuses, revealing she believes she is pregnant and fears for her own baby’s life. Kenneth is devastated and pleads with her, emphasizing that two lives are at stake, but Christina remains firm, accusing him of wanting her to sacrifice her own child.

 

Despite Christina’s protests, Kenneth does not let her refuse and doctors restrain her, preparing her for a blood transfusion. Meanwhile, frantic efforts are made outside to find compatible blood. Kenneth is shocked to learn from a doctor that Christina is not actually pregnant, and the physician admits to falsifying the report under Christina’s request and financial incentive. Kenneth feels betrayed and deeply disappointed by Christina’s deception.

 

Inside the operating room, Christina is pale and weak as Alice cruelly wastes the donated blood by throwing it away, taunting Christina for crossing her and blaming her suffering on not divorcing sooner. Christina’s condition worsens rapidly, and she loses consciousness. When she eventually awakens, she is weak and confused, learning from a doctor that she was never pregnant and has been in a coma due to severe blood loss for three days. The revelation leaves Christina in shock and disbelief.

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Suddenly, chaos erupted outside the hospital room. 

Kenneth, frantic and shaking uncontrollably, rushed to Christina’s bedside. 

She’d only ever seen that look on his face once before–on the day he was stabbed. 

“Babe, you have to help Allie! She’s hemorrhaging, she’s dying! The blood bank doesn’t have any Rh–negative blood–only you can save her!” 

Christina had never considered herself a saint, especially after everything Alice had done to hurt 

her. 

She yanked her hand away coldly. “Kenneth, I’m pregnant. If I give Alice my blood, what about our baby?” 

Kenneth seemed to collapse in on himself, sinking to the floor as if all his strength had drained away. 

Outside, a frenzy had broken out, staff desperately calling hospitals in neighboring cities for help. 

Phones rang, and Alice’s agonized screams echoed through the hallway, “Kenny, save our baby! Please, save our baby!” 

Kenneth looked up at Christina again. “Babe, that’s two lives! Not just her baby–Allie could die, too! How can you be so heartless?” 

“What about me? I finally have a child of my own, and you want me to sacrifice my baby to save hers. You’re asking me to kill my own child!” 

Kenneth’s expression hardened, his voice gentle but merciless, “Babe, I’ve already heard the baby’s heartbeat. I can’t give him up.” 

He didn’t give Christina a chance to refuse. 

The doctors strapped her tightly to the bed with restraints, ignoring her hysterical screams as they wheeled her into the operating room. 

The test results came back quickly, and a doctor rushed up to Kenneth. 

“Mr. Gilford! Mrs. Gilford’s tests show she isn’t pregnant. Where did you get the idea she was?” 

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Kenneth was stunned. “Just now.” he said, producing the test report. 

The doctor immediately led Kenneth to the office of the physician who’d signed the report. When they arrived, the doctor’s eyes darted nervously. 

“What’s going on here?” 

The man’s knees buckled, his voice trembling with forced regret. 

“Mr. Gilford, Mrs. Gilford asked me to falsify the report! I lost my head and took her money–I was just confused for a moment!” 

Kenneth’s pupils contracted sharply. “Christina!” His voice brimmed with bitter disappointment and disgust. 

Inside the operating room, Christina’s face was ghostly pale. 

A needle was already inserted into her wrist, and red blood was slowly flowing through the tube. On the bed beside her, a newborn baby wailed loudly–no sign of hemorrhaging anywhere. The doctor held up two large bags of blood. “Ms. Schirmer, that’s 400 milliliters. Should we-?” Alice toyed with the blood bags, sneering. “Keep going! 

The staff exchanged uneasy glances, but none dared defy her. 

Alice jabbed the blood bags with a needle and, right in front of Christina, dumped them all into 

the trash. 

Christina’s body grew heavier, her consciousness fading. 

Five hundred… six hundred… eight hundred milliliters. 

“Ms. Schirmer, any more and this could turn dangerous!” 

Alice, still unsatisfied, slapped Christina’s check. “Christina, this is what happens when you cross me. If you’d just divorced sooner, you wouldn’t have had to 

suffer like this.” 

Christina opened her mouth, but couldn’t get a word out before she slipped into unconsciousness. 

The first thing she sensed as she came to was the sharp smell of antiseptic. 

Christina forced her tired eyes open, staring up at the stark white ceiling. Her body felt utterly drained–she didn’t even have the strength to turn her head. 

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A doctor entered, adjusting her IV drip and sighing. 

“You’ve been in a coma from hypovolemic shock for three days. If the head nurse hadn’t intervened, you might not have made it…. 

Christina bit her lip hard. “Is my baby… gone?” 

“You were never pregnant.” 

“That’s impossible!”