The Substitute Wife || JR&LK ✔️

CHAPTER 169

"Oh..." As Rosè Jang repeated those words, she let out a moan and reached out to grab her abdomen. It was a sudden pain—not like what she would feel when the baby would kick her but more likely a contraction.

"Madam, madam, what's wrong?" The frightened housekeeper hurriedly reached out to support Rosè Jang.

Another sharp pain ripped through her abdomen again. Rosè Jang took a deep breath, and she could not say anything when confronted by the anxious housekeeper. Her lips were gradually growing pale, and her breath had become unsteady.

"Madam, is your abdomen hurting? Let me escort you back. We'll get Dr. Kim..." Before the housekeeper could finish talking, Rosè Jang suddenly clenched her hand, increasing the tightness as the pain increased. She gazed at the housekeeper with a pale face as she suppressed the pain and forced herself to speak. "No..."

Following that was another wave of pain. She moaned, "I... I think I'm... Going into labor..." Her words cut out when the pain caused her to gasp in a low voice.

The housekeeper had experience giving birth, so when she heard those words, she calmed down and raised her voice to summon the nurse. She instructed the caretaker to prepare the car, as well as reminded her to retrieve Rosè Jang's hospital bag from the master bedroom.

The two of them escorted Rosè Jang to the car and hurriedly left for the hospital. The housekeeper called Dr. Kim while they were on the way. Just when she was about to call the Park Mansion, Rosè Jang spoke while clutching her abdomen in pain. "Don't mention Jimin to Grandpa..."

The housekeeper knew that Rosè Jang was referring to the fact that they had lost contact with Park Jimin for the past three days. She nodded gently and acceded.

Before Park Jimin had left, he had specially instructed the housekeeper that she could contact Jeon Jungkook and Min Yoongi if anything happened to Rosè Jang.

There were still 10 days until Rosè Jang's supposed date of delivery, but she was going into early labor now, and the housekeeper suspected that it was because the news of Park Jimin's disappearance had agitated her. The housekeeper was afraid that the early labor might result in something she couldn't resolve on her phone, so she called Jeon Jungkook and Min Yoongi.

By the time they arrived at the hospital, Rosè Jang was in so much pain that she could no longer move. Her water had broke, and the frequency of her contractions was at the end stage for delivery.

Dr. Kim , who had heard about the news prior to this, was waiting for her at the hospital, where Rosè Jang was placed on the hospital bed the moment she arrived and pushed into the delivery room. Over the last seven months of her pregnancy, Dr. Kim had taught her delivery techniques every time she had been at a checkup, and she instinctively now began using them.

Inhale lightly, exhale slowly...

Rosè Jang had long familiarized herself with these exercises. However, as she listened to the instructions of the gynecologist and exerted strength, she found herself longing for Park Jimin. During the moments in which the pain was enough to disorientate her and make it difficult for her to exert any strength, Park Jimin's presence in her mind would appear and grow more clear each time. And each time this happened, she felt worse than before.

Toward the end, even though the doctors around her were anxiously perspiring and talking endlessly to her, she was so dazed that she could not hear a single word. The only thing floating in her heart and her world was Jimin's name. Her relentless moans gradually grew softer and softer, as well, until they were almost muted.

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"The mother can't exert any strength at all. If this continues, it will inevitably lead to a dystocia, and the child might suffocate in her abdomen."