Love After Marriage: Mr. Lancaster's Hidden Wife

Chapter 160 Henry's Compromise

"What about my feelings then? I'm the father of the child in her womb. Do you understand how I feel now that I have lost my child?" Henry pointed upstairs and growled angrily.

His words choked Dominic. Guilt was apparent in his eyes.

Henry forcefully closed his eyes as he tried to calm himself down. "Dominic Conrad, who gave you the courage to do this? You kidnapped my wife and killed my child. Aren't you worried that I'd exact my revenge?"

Dominic started panicking at the mention of revenge." Henry, I know this is my fault but it is for the sake of saving Jackie's life."

"Yes, it is for the sake of saving Jackie. But did you have to kill my child to save her?" Henry looked at him dangerously.

“I had no choice! Why did she have to get pregnant at this time? I'm sure you know about Jackie’s situation. She's in grave danger. If she doesn’t undergo the surgery as soon as possible, her days are likely numbered..."

"I told you that I'd have Shane stabilize Jackie’s condition. Did you choose to ignore my words?" Henry picked up the teacup from the coffee table and

smashed it to the ground hard.

Dominic's old and wrinkled face paled in shock. "Yes, you did say that but Jackie would suffer even more if she receives an unsuitable bone marrow transplant. A s her father, I just can't bear to see her like that."

"You didn't want to bear it so you forcibly took someone else's bone marrow and even cruelly killed their child? You're really a hypocrite, Dominic Conrad." Henry mocked him mercilessly.

Embarrassment appeared on Dominic's old face. "I'm sorry Henry. If you have to blame someone, then you can place the blame on me. Please don’t blame Jackie, she knows nothing. She's innocent.”

"Innocent..." Henry merely sneered coldly and didn't say anything.

Dominic couldn’t guess the meaning behind his sneer. After thinking for a moment, he spoke up again," Henry. Your child may be gone, but you'll surely still have another child since you're still very young.

Besides, you don't love that woman. Why not take this chance to get a divorce? After all, Jackie has been waiting for you."

"Divorce?" Henry's eyes flashed coldly as realization dawned upon him. "So you did something so outrageous because that was your intention?”

"That... no. The main reason is still to save Jackie. I only came up with this idea since I thought that you didn't really care about this woman. After all, you were the one who suddenly changed your mind so I could only resort to doing this. However, I'll still compensate her."

"Yvonne Frey will not accept your compensation,” Henry derided him.

He knew how badly she wanted the child.

Now that the child was gone, he could already predict how upset she would be after she woke up.

Dominic frowned, "Won't accept the compensation? Then what does she want?" Material © NôvelDrama.Org.

Henry lowered his gaze and said nothing.

Dominic cast a silent glance at him and then probed," Henry, will you really get revenge on us?"

"This isn’t the end of it yet," Henry responded vaguely.

That scared the other man. "Henry, if you want revenge then just come at me. Please don’t do anything to Jackie. I'm worried that she won't be able t o take it. Besides, she just had her surgery. As long as she reconditions herself well, she'll get better in no time. I'm sure you don't want to see anything happen t o her again, right?"

These words undoubtedly hit a nail on his head.

His feelings toward Jacqueline were complicated.

Even until now, he couldn't tell if the feelings he had for her was love or something else.

The only thing he could be sure of was that he really didn't want to see anything happen to Jacqueline again.

Dominic had been observing the changes in Henry's expression. The moment the man’s expression slightly softened on his face, Dominic knew that his words had swayed him.

Hence, he quickly struck while the iron was hot." Henry, the die has been cast. We should just make the best of the mistake, what say you?"

Henry pressed his lips and thought for a few seconds." Does Yvonne Frey know you were the one behind this?"

“She doesn't know. She was blindfolded during the surgery and I asked someone to fake your voice. She only knows that you're involved in it but not the other participants," he answered truthfully.

Henry narrowed his eyes dangerously. "Fake my voice? So you planned to mislead Yvonne Frey into thinking that I'm behind this whole thing in the first place?" i

Dominic rubbed his nose and said somewhat guiltily," I'm also doing this for everyone's good. Since she cares about you so much, I think she'll probably only b e upset with you and won't really blame you." 1

Henry was so annoyed that the veins on his temples throbbed. "Dominic Conrad, I'll remember this." "Well, my hands were tied," he smiled wryly.

To be honest, he did have a moment of hesitation when he decided upon Jackie's suggestion. But the sight of her wasting away was what made him steel his resolve. 2

He thought that taking the bone marrow would be no big deal. At most, he'd just offer the woman some compensation. Yet he didn’t expect the woman to be pregnant. But in the end, his desire to save his daughter defeated his conscience. In any case, as long as Henry still had feelings for Jackie, he wouldn't really do anything to them.

And this situation proved that he was right!

"Henry, would you like to go up and meet Jackie?" he asked.

Henry pressed his thin lips. "No. I can't bring myself to see someone who was saved in exchange for my child’s life right now."

Dominic stopped talking out of guilt when he heard Henry. 1

Henry went upstairs again without even looking at him.

Shortly after that, he came back downstairs with Yvonne in his arms. "You’d better pray that she won't suffer from any long-term side effects after this. Otherwise, don't blame me for not accepting any future collaborations with the Conrads," he warned Dominic before leaving. 5

"Yes, yes, I’ll keep that in mind.” Dominic nodded repeatedly.

After Henry left, he let out a long sigh of relief and went upstairs.

"Jackie, Dad's coming in." Dominic knocked on Jacqueline’s door, then opened the door and entered.

Jacqueline couldn't move her body after just receiving her surgery, so she could only turn her head to look at him. "Dad, is Henry gone?"

"Yes. I actually asked him to come see you, but he said he couldn't bring himself to look at you right now," he said with slight dissatisfaction.

Jacqueline smiled indifferently, "Forgive him, Dad. It's only normal that he can't face me after all the things w e have done. He'll be fine after some coaxing from me." 2

"Fortunately my daughter is capable." Dominic nodded in satisfaction.

Light flashed across Jacqueline's eyes. "Dad, did you manage to sway him? Will he get revenge on us?"

"Probably not anymore. I told him that if he did that, you would do something to yourself. He then hesitated and didn't mention anything about revenge after that. From the looks of it, I think he’d even defend us and take all the blame," Dominic said. 3

Jacqueline's lips curled into a smile. "Good." "Yes, it seems that Henry really loves you very much, Jackie," Dominic sighed ruefully. “So much that he didn’t even care that he lost his child." 1

"Love me?" Jacqueline sneered after hearing this. "He may still have me in his heart, but the person he loves now is Yvonne Frey. He just hasn’t realized that yet because he doesn’t love her deep enough. But that's good for us. Otherwise, he won’t let us off the hook so easily for getting rid of his child."

"He's in love with Yvonne Frey?" Dominic was shocked. "Then what will you do, Jackie?"

"Dad, calm down first." Jacqueline assured him and then stretched out her hand. "Give me your phone."

Dominic handed her his phone. She took it and then made a call. "Henry..." "What do you want?" Henry asked coldly.