Chapter 8 Bankruptcy

She bit her lips with a pale face. She held her abdomen and cried, "Baby, it is mommy's fault." She shouldn't have leave without money. She would have hated herself if the baby had something wrong. At this time, the clouds became darker, followed by pouring rain. She got wet. It was too cold to shiver. She was wandering alone on the street, surrounded by pedestrians passing by in a hurry, none of whom noticed her. Leslie was crying in the rain. She looked up at the boundless gray sky. God, why you torture me like this? A car passed by the road. The noise brought some of her consciousness back. She ran into the street to wave down help. A car was just a few centimeters away from hitting her. She went toward the driver's seat and tapped desperately on the window. But she was too weak. She was so afraid that no one would hear her. "Please save me. Save my baby." Leslie fondled her stomach, tears mixed with rainwater slid down her small face. She looks like a stray kitten. Her pale face was highlighting the severity of her illness. "Nonsense, I did nothing with you." Phoenix Steffen was being stared by his friends. He was trying to explain. But this time he cannot explain clearly. He could only get off the car and took the woman home. Phoenix helped Leslie up. He did not expect that this woman was so light. "No, I don't want to go to the hospital." Leslie grabbed his clothes and cried out. Her abdomen ached even more when she exerted herself. She could only put her hands on her abdomen and curled up like a shrimp. Phoenix saw her in this state. It seemed possible to take her to the hospital. So he took her to his house. Phoenix's house was nearby, a separate villa. He used to study medicine. So there had a lot of medicine at home to help the patient. Looking at Leslie, her condition was very unpromising. "Miss, you are a pregnant woman. Why you go outside alone?" "I'm just a homeless woman. My husband would catch me and take me to get an abortion." She frowned and said easily. Phoenix sighed as he remembered her fainting appearance from hunger. This woman looks so beautiful and lovely, but she lived such a miserable life. Phoenix made her a dinner and gave her a nutritional infusion. Before the infusion, Leslie said hurriedly, "I have a baby. Many medicines can't be used for me." Phoenix was reassured that the medicine had no side effects on pregnant women. "Where is the father of the baby? You're pregnant with starving. He did not take care of you but asking you to have an abortion. I have to teach that scum a good lesson!" Phoenix, after dropping the nutrient solution for her, opened his cell phone hastily to call the police. "I'm going to get help from the police now. It's unreasonable to abuse pregnant women. Regardless of the hanging needle, Leslie pulled Phoenix's hand. She said, "Please no, sir. I sneaked out on my own. Don't tell him, please." Phoenix stopped calling and said angrily, "You still want to protect that scum now, right?" Leslie sobbed and said helplessly, "I am begging you not to call the police. He will punish me. He never wanted this baby. I am the one who insist on having this baby." Phoenix finally stopped calling the police under her pleading. "If you get bullied again in the future, tell him that you are my friend." "Is that man also responsible for your current condition? I advise you to break up with that man." Leslie smiled bitterly. If she could break up with Christopher, she wouldn't be living such a miserable life. Everything was her own fault. Phoenix thought she was so poor. In order to ease her mood, he turned on the TV. He was about to change the channel. But Leslie hastily said not to change. “Please wait. I want to watch this news." The woman reporter said with regret, "Unfortunately! The Ward's company, which has a history of twenty years, will declare bankrupt today. Ward's consortium announced a full acquisition of it. Terry Ward, Ward's CEO, is in a coma with cerebral hemorrhage. Currently he was sent to Mercy Hospital for emergency medical treatment." "No! How could the Ward Group go bankrupt? It was fine before I had left. Why does he not even spare my father! " Leslie suffered an intense psychological breakdown. She ripped the needle out of her hand and wanted to go to the hospital. Phoenix stopped Leslie, "How can you go out in a poor health? You don't want this baby? You rest tonight and I will take you to hospital tomorrow." Once Leslie thought of the baby', she had to agree his words.