239 Can't Imagine My Life Without You, Lina

In a surgery room in East Star Private Family Hospital, Lina lay on the bed looking up at the bright lights on the white panelled ceiling.

Doctors and nurses rushed around the room, hurriedly preparing everything and a glimpse of two baby bassinets made Lina take a deep breath and she tried to focus on the positive.

"Soon I will be holding my babies," she spoke outloud.

An anesthesiologist prepared the general anaesthetic as the time for an epidural had passed and asked William to confirm Lina's age and height.

William sat in a chair by her head and tried to keep his wits about him.

He did his best to cradle her hand and comfort her, but the image of Lina laying on the hospital bed being hooked up to the machines and a crowd of doctors at her feet was naturally irksome and Will wished that it could be different.

Terrible, unspeakable thoughts crossed his mind when he considered the major surgery that she was about to embark on.

If she died...