Three Babies Lost One Promise Kept Novel by Aurora _ Novel





Three Babies Lost One Promise Kept Chapter 01

Every time Calista Norrington became pregnant, she would lose her baby to a string of accidents.
The first time, someone switched her medicine for abortion pills. She went into shock on the spot, bleeding heavily. Doctors had to perform an emergency D&C to save her life.
The second time, she was stabbed five times, the severe injuries causing her to miscarry.
The third time, she fell from a third-floor balcony, suffering eleven fractures, a ruptured uterus, and massive internal bleeding. She was rushed to the ICU twice and survived only at the cost of having her uterus removed.
She escaped the jaws of death, yet was forever stripped of the chance to become a mother. And the mastermind behind it all was none other than Julian Primrose's childhood sweetheart, Paloma Maxwell.
It was ironic that Calista knew the truth all along, yet she had no way to seek justice for herself—or for the three children who died unborn.
Three years earlier, Paloma had been injured while saving Julian in a terrible accident. She lost all her memories, and her mental capacity regressed permanently to that of a five-year-old.
So, no matter how many wrongs Paloma made, Julian excused and protected her without question.
Time and again, he told Calista, "Palo saved my life. She has the mind of a five-year-old. Why would you argue with a child?"
He was right. There was no point in trying to argue with a child.
Calista gritted her teeth, swallowing every ounce of pain and torment. All she ever received from Julian were a few glances of pity, while the true culprit continued to live freely, cloaked in an air of innocent naivety.
She naively believed that her love for Julian would be enough to hold together a marriage already riddled with cracks.
But just days after her surgery, when she could barely get out of bed, she leaned against the wall and stepped into the hallway for some air—only to overhear her husband speaking with a doctor friend in the stairwell. "Jule, her condition back then didn't require a hysterectomy at all. You insisted on having her uterus removed. Do you realize you took away her chance to ever be a mother?"
The truth came like a bolt from the blue. Calista staggered, barely able to stay on her feet, her blood seeming to freeze in her veins.
Julian sighed. "I have no choice."
His friend was shocked. "Seriously? You repeatedly instigated Paloma to harm Calista, causing her to miscarry, and you call that 'no choice'? Those were your own flesh and blood!"
Calista stood frozen. So all her suffering had been inflicted by the very man she married!
"My flesh and blood? They were merely three undeveloped embryos! So what if she lost them?"
His cold words cut through Calista like a thousand blades. She watched as he rubbed his brow, the severity on his face easing unconsciously the moment Paloma's name was mentioned.
"I swore I'd love Paloma for the rest of my life, to treat her like my own child and never let her suffer. But once my own child is born, I couldn't guarantee I'd still love her the same way. I was afraid she'd feel hurt. So this was the only way."
The doctor shot back, "Then why the hell didn't you let Calista go?"
After a few seconds of silence, Julian finally spoke.
"I love Calista. She's the woman I want to spend my life with. I can't live without her. That's why I had to do this. I'll transfer twenty percent of the Primrose Group's shares to her, along with the villa worth 30 million dollars, as compensation."
Every word stabbed into Calista's chest, echoing in her mind, tearing her apart over and over again.
A drop of tear slid from the corner of her eye.
She clutched her aching chest, gasping for breath, forcing her shaking body to move as she stumbled back to her hospital room.
Paloma was just a pawn in Julian's elaborate scheme. The husband she had leaned on and shared her life with turned out to be the executioner who had personally destroyed her life. He had even reduced their unborn children to "embryos"!
He caused her to miscarry three times. He robbed her forever of the chance to become a mother—all because he feared that their child might one day steal the love he had reserved for Paloma...
She remembered meeting Julian for the first time in Paris at eighteen. He had chased a thief for three blocks to retrieve her stolen phone. Bruised and battered, he still smiled as he handed it back to her. "I'm fine. It doesn't hurt. We look out for our own when we're abroad."
She remembered that at twenty, all it took was a casual "I miss you," and Julian immediately flew back after a twenty-hour flight, just to stand before her and say, "I miss you, too."
She remembered that on her twenty-second birthday, Julian had booked the entire amusement park for her. Beneath a sky ablaze with fireworks, he dropped to one knee and declared, his voice full of tender affection, "Callie, from the moment we met, I knew I wanted to protect you for life. Marry me! Or I'll spend the rest of my days worrying that I might lose you!"
She nodded and agreed to his proposal.
She believed that, just as he had promised, they would share a lifetime of happiness.
But no one could have predicted that, barely a month into their marriage, Julian—sent by Paloma's parents to pick her up from the airport—would be caught in a devastating car accident.
Fortunately, both Julian and Paloma survived, but in that critical moment, Paloma had shielded Julian from the explosion. The blast struck her head, leaving her permanently intellectually disabled.
Consumed by guilt, Julian took responsibility for her care.
With tears streaming down his face, he made a promise to Paloma's parents. "From now on, I'll protect Palo and never let her get hurt."
And in keeping that promise, he turned Paloma into the most cherished presence in his life.
Ridiculous as it seemed, the truth was as plain as day.
The man who once fell in love with Calista at first sight, who gave her all his patience and tenderness, was gone—replaced by a husband who turned a blind eye to her suffering and openly favored another.
And because she loved him too much, she endured it all.
She didn't dare to dream of Julian's love anymore. All she ever wanted was to bear a child of her own, and even that tiny wish was crushed now.
Fine.
Wasn't he afraid of losing her? Then she would show him what it truly meant to never meet again in this lifetime.

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