CHAPTER 58: CHAPTER 58: IVY SUMMERS, SOPHIE IS MY CHILD, ISN’T SHE?

Damien Lancaster’s handsome face was frozen in a cold expression.

He truly couldn’t comprehend why a woman who heartlessly aborted her own child would risk everything to save another’s child.

Ivy Summers, after jumping in, suddenly remembered that she couldn’t swim.

The overwhelming sea submerged her breath.

She floundered in the water, suffocated by fear that swept over her entire body, but seeing Sophie sinking, the power of motherhood still drove her to swim towards Sophie at all costs.

The sea was anything but calm at this moment, with the sea breeze whipping up waves. No matter how hard Ivy Summers tried, she couldn’t reach Sophie.

"Splash!"

Someone else had jumped into the sea.

...

When Ivy Summers was rescued, she was tightly clutching Sophie, but she herself had passed out from drowning.

Damien Lancaster held the unconscious Ivy Summers with both hands, his arm cradled at her shoulder still holding one Sophie.

Once ashore, Sophie was taken by a team of doctors.

Damien Lancaster laid Ivy Summers flat on the shore, performing artificial respiration and CPR, doing it umpteen times until the woman finally showed a slight reaction, laboriously spitting out a few mouthfuls of water.

Damien Lancaster gazed down at her, water dripping from his black, stiff hair on his forehead, casting a shadow that covered his dark eyes.

"Cough cough..."

Ivy Summers coughed painfully, her long lashes fluttered, and the moment she opened her eyes, she was still calling out, "Sophie..."

Damien Lancaster pressed his lips tightly, his molars clenched.

Ivy Summers struggled, propping up her arms trying to get up, but her heavy body had no strength, and she fell right back down.

Impatiently, Damien Lancaster extended a hand to support her back.

Only then did Ivy Summers notice that Damien Lancaster was also drenched.

Just now, she thought she was going to die, to sink forever with Sophie to the seabed when someone pulled her.

Now it seemed, the one who saved her and Sophie was Damien Lancaster.

Damien Lancaster’s face was taut, looking very upset.

Ivy Summers anxiously wanted to know how Sophie was.

"Sophie? Where’s Sophie? How is Sophie?"

Damien Lancaster didn’t speak, didn’t respond to her, just looked at her, his eyes deep and dark, like the unfathomable sea.

Ivy Summers’ lips twitched, seeing Damien Lancaster’s expression, her heart trembled, eyes widened not daring to breathe, "Sophie... Sophie, won’t..."

"Won’t be..." Ivy Summers comforted herself.

It won’t, it won’t...

Sophie will be alright.

She struggled to get up, clutching her chest, which was still coughing, ready to go find Sophie.

Only to be yanked back by the man, falling back to the ground.

Ivy Summers looked at Damien Lancaster blankly, "What are you doing?"

"I should be asking you that." Damien Lancaster’s face was terrifyingly cold, "Don’t you know you can’t swim?"

"I do."

"Then why did you go to your death? Are you an idiot?"

It was the first time Ivy Summers heard Damien Lancaster cursing, unsure why he was angry.

Was it just because she couldn’t swim but still went to save someone?

But in that situation, even given a hundred choices, she would still save Sophie.

"Where’s Sophie? How is she?"

Ivy Summers only cared about Sophie.

If anything happened to Sophie, she wouldn’t want to live either.

"Sir, Miss Summers, Sophie’s alright, she injured her forehead, the doctor has done some simple bandaging, but she’ll need to go to the hospital for proper care. However, Sophie keeps calling for mommy..."

Ivy Summers’ heart trembled, instinctively wanting to get up to go, but the deeply ingrained awareness made her stop her actions.

Beside her, Damien Lancaster’s deep and compelling gaze was still fixed on her.

Afraid of being suspected by him, torn between wanting to see Sophie and not wanting him to discover her secret, Ivy Summers struggled with the choice.

Just as she couldn’t hold on any longer, deciding let it be, if it’s discovered, it’s discovered, Ella Morgan arrived.

"Sir, Sophie’s mother is here, she said she’ll accompany Sophie to the hospital first, and will come to properly thank you and Miss Summers later."

"Got it."

Ivy Summers’ hand that was resting on the side tightened, she forced herself to suppress the impulse, feeling a bit relieved.

"Thank you." Ivy Summers said to Damien Lancaster, trying to get up, but Damien Lancaster pressed her hand back down again.

Ivy Summers frowned, turning to look at him.

Damien Lancaster’s low voice asked, "Why?"

"Why what?"

Ivy Summers didn’t understand.

Damien Lancaster continued to ask, "Why did you jump in to save her even when you knew you couldn’t swim? Ivy Summers, you have nothing to do with her."

With no connection at all, yet Ivy Summers acted as if she was willing to throw her life away for Sophie.

Ivy Summers met Damien Lancaster’s gaze, as if he wanted to see through her, and her recently steadied heartbeat raced again.

"Ivy Summers, if I hadn’t saved you, you would have died with her."

Ivy Summers pressed her lips tightly.

"Your behavior makes me suspicious that you have a connection with that child."

Too many flaws were exposed.

Really too many.

From meeting in Yrador to now, Ivy Summers had actually shown many flaws. Although each had an explanation, a flaw was still a flaw.

Damien Lancaster had a feeling that everything Ivy Summers did in front of him was an act.

Only the two times she saved Sophie were the most genuine.

Once pushing away water, another jumping into the sea.

Each time risking everything.

"Ivy Summers, is Sophie our child from back then?"

Damien Lancaster had always been suspicious, but he had never asked Ivy Summers this question directly.

This incident made him unable to hold back from asking.

He really wanted to know whether the child from back then had been aborted.

If she was still in this world, if she was indeed Sophie.

Ivy Summers’ pupils trembled fiercely.

Damien Lancaster caught the change in her pupils, he raised his hand to grip her shoulder, "Ivy Summers, Sophie is our child from back then, isn’t she?"