CHAPTER 99

OWEN'S POV

“I can't… Please don't make me choose. God, please…”

“Mr Owen, I'll ask again. Who do you want us to save, your wife or the baby?”

My breath caught in my throat, my world spinning around me as I desperately tried to get the question out of my head. How could anyone make a choice like that?

“Doctor, I wanna know. If I choose to save the baby, won't it die without its mother?”

“Naturally, yes. But we've been able to develop a new technology that's better than an incubator. She's formed already so it won't be difficult at all.”

“S-she? It's a girl?” I asked as a smile formed on my face and I imagined holding my little princess in my arms.

“Yes, it's a girl. You're delaying, Mr Owen. If we delay too much, we might lose both of them.”

The room started to close in on me.and I could feel my heart racing as panic set in. Charlotte was everything to me. But our princess... the life we had just created... How could I just let them go?

“I…” My voice cracked, barely audible like a whis