Chapter 3

After leaving the party, I immediately drove Henry to the hospital.

After a long period of emergency treatment, the doctor finally walked out of the emergency room with a tired look on his face.

The doctor looked at me solemnly and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Cole. We've done our best. The fragments of the wine bottle have deeply embedded in your brother's cranial nerves, causing irreversible damage. I'm afraid your brother will remain in a vegetative state and lie in bed for the rest of his life."

The doctor's words seemed to have an invisible magic power, instantly draining all the strength from my body.

I collapsed helplessly at the door of the ward and looked at Henry, who was lying on the bed with tubes all over his body.

I thought, "He's only eighteen years old this year! He has just been admitted to his dream university! His life dreams haven't been realized yet. And now, because of me, such a sensible man will have to lie in bed for the rest of his life!"

At that moment, boundless guilt and self-blame overwhelmed me, and tears of remorse welled up in my eyes and flowed down my face.

At that moment, I wished that the person lying in bed was me!

I didn't fall asleep that night. I stayed by Henry's bedside in the ward until dawn.

When the first ray of sunlight shone into the ward the next morning, the phone in my pocket suddenly rang.

As soon as I answered the call, Evelyn's anxious voice came through. "Sebastian, where the hell have you gone? Why aren't you staying by the baby's side to feed him and change his diapers? Do you know we didn't get a good night's sleep all night just because you weren't with him?"

Just as she finished speaking, Matthew's complaining voice suddenly came from the other end of the phone. "Evie, hurry up and find Sebastian. I'm exhausted after this night."

There was an obvious hint of flirtation in his words. "Evie, if I keep working this hard at night, I'm afraid I'll be too tired to do certain things..."

Evelyn replied in a sweet tone, "Oh, you're so annoying..."

Hearing the flirting between Evelyn and Matthew, I tightened my grip on the phone, and my hand trembled uncontrollably with anger.

But then she spoke again and criticized me forcefully, "Sebastian, you're really an irresponsible father! If you don't take care of the baby anymore, I won't let you see him ever again."

After what happened at the party, such threats no longer had any effect on me.

I said indifferently, "Have you forgotten what you said? Why should I take care of a child who isn't my own?"

Evelyn said angrily, "Sebastian, you're really being petty! The words I said at the party were just because I lost a game to Matthew. I had to accept the punishment of the game as I had agreed. It was just a joke. How could you actually take it seriously? In your eyes, am I really that bad? If you keep being jealous like this, I'll really find a new father for him!"

After saying that, Evelyn angrily hung up the phone.

I tightly held the phone, and my heart was filled with unbearable pain and suffering.

I looked at Henry, who was now lying in bed and relying on glucose to survive, and a bitter smile appeared on my face. In an instant, I deeply regretted ever meeting Evelyn.

If I hadn't been determined to be with her at that time, Henry wouldn't be in this state now.

I met Evelyn in college. Unlike me, an outsider on the fringes, she became a prominent figure in the college as soon as she enrolled.

Evelyn, who was beautiful, had excellent grades, and came from a wealthy family, quickly became the target of pursuit for many outstanding men in the college.

But at the same time, she was also targeted by many girls. They even deliberately locked her in a warehouse filled with sundries.

When I found her, she was crying almost to the point of fainting.

She threw herself into my arms helplessly and begged me in a panic, "Sebastian, please, don't leave me!"

Looking at the beautiful woman crying in my arms, I was instantly smitten and uncontrollably fell in love with Evelyn.

Even though among Evelyn's many suitors, I, who came from a poor family, had no advantage at all, I still took the initiative to pursue her.

Finally, in the year we graduated, I defeated all the other suitors and officially got together with Evelyn. At the same time, I respected Evelyn's wish and decided to help her start a business.

In the early days of starting the business, she was worried that our marriage would affect the development of the company, so she decided to hide the fact of our marriage and let me enter the company as a department director to assist her.

Although I wasn't happy about it in my heart, I still agreed to her proposal.

But five years had passed, and the marriage that I cherished the most had fallen apart. My beloved wife joined forces with an outsider to hurt my only younger brother.

She even threatened me with our son. I didn't want such a marriage anymore.

After the idea of getting a divorce came to my mind, I immediately contacted a lawyer and prepared the divorce agreement.

I entrusted Henry to the hospital nurse and then immediately went to the company with the divorce agreement in hand.

However, as soon as I entered the company, I noticed that all the employees were looking at me with strange glances.