After donating her cornea to Calvin, Heidi discovered that she was pregnant.
At the time, she felt both excitement and fear—excited that she finally had a family member by her side, but terrified that the surgery might affect her baby.
She spent a long time in anxious uncertainty, but in the end, fate was cruel to her.
The year she was diagnosed with eye cancer, Tommie was also diagnosed with leukemia.
She once went to Rosalie and begged for bone marrow. To keep it from Calvin, they secretly did a compatibility test.
Unfortunately, it failed.
Rosalie then cut off all contact with Heidi and Tommie.
Without money and without a matching donor, Tommie’s illness kept dragging on.
It had been three years.
Tommie couldn’t hold on any longer.
“Besides bone marrow, is there any other way to save Tommie?”
Sharon thought for a moment. “There is—umbilical cord blood. But unless you can have another child with Calvin, the chances are still very slim.”
‘A child… it isn’t impossible!’
As Heidi was lost in thought, the sound of a child crying suddenly came from outside.
‘It’s Tommie!’
Her heart tightened, and she rushed over. When she got closer, she saw Adrienne hitting Tommie—while Calvin just stood there.
“Tommie! Are you okay? Are you hurt?”
“I-I-I’m fine, Mom. Don’t worry.”
From the moment he was born, her son had always been well-behaved. She didn’t know who he took after, but he had never given her any trouble.
Now, even with his little face red and swollen, tears still in his eyes, he was comforting her.
Heidi’s heart ached. She couldn’t help but hold her son tightly in her arms.
“Heidi, this… is your son?”
She looked at Calvin. A thousand words rose to her lips, but in the end, only one came out.
“Yeah.”
That single word ignited Calvin’s fury.
Just moments ago, when he saw Adrienne hitting the child, he had been angry and rushed over to stop her.
But he never expected that this child was Heidi’s!
She had really betrayed their love.
She had really been with another man.
Adrienne, watching the mother and son embrace, had a triumphant and calculating look in her eyes.
“Vin, it’s my fault. I was just startled by the child and acted out of panic.
“I didn’t know he was Miss Twigg’s son. I’m really sorry.”
As she spoke, Adrienne stepped forward, crouched down, and took Tommie’s hand.
“Miss Twigg, your son is really adorable. He looks about four or five years old, right? That means you had him the same year you and Vin divorced.
“This boy… could he be Vin’s?”
Back then, after agreeing to Rosalie’s request, Heidi pretended to be materialistic and greedy. She had handed over the divorce papers herself.
She and Calvin had spent seven years together. He had been willing to give up his privileged life for her, and she had been willing to endure hardship with him.
At their happiest moments, they had dreamed about what their child would look like. They had even imagined the life of a happy family of three.
At first, Calvin refused to believe she had fallen out of love. He even tore up the divorce papers with his own hands.
But to save him, Heidi had used the cruelest words.
She told him that she had only agreed to be with him for money and had stayed through the hardships because she believed he would one day return to the Rosenbachs.
She told him that now, as a blind man, the Rosenbachs would never take him back, and she didn’t want to spend her life with a blind man either.
She told him that she had found another man—one who was richer, one who promised to give her the best of everything, one who could make her dream of marrying into a wealthy family come true.
