The ring slipped from Gavin's fingertips like a falling meteor. It reflected the dazzling light and finally lay on the carpet silently.

Like the ring, Gavin also fell down without warning.

Everything happened so suddenly. For a moment, Wendy's world fell into a dead silence. She looked at Gavin, who had fallen down, and her mind went blank.

But it only lasted for a moment.

The next second, she came to her senses, and simultaneously, her world also exploded.

Her voice cracked and she screamed, "Gavin!"

She rushed up crazily to hold Gavin, but she hadn't recovered the strength in her hand. In the end, she was brought down by Gavin, and they fell to the ground together.

"Boom!"

She seemed to hear the sound coming from hell. It was so heavy, like a solid hammer, mercilessly hitting her heart.

Who was to tell her why Gavin fainted?

"Gavin, don't frighten me!"

Wendy held Gavin in her arms and shook his body hard, but he didn't respond. His face was pale, and his eyes were tightly closed. If it weren't for his heartbeat and temperature, Wendy would almost suspect that he had no vital signs.

"Gavin, don't kid me. Open your eyes and look at me!"

Wendy kept calling Gavin's name like a lost person calling her companions in a voice full of helplessness and despair. However, Gavin did not respond to her, nor did he open his eyes to look at her.

"Gavin, don't frighten me. Open your eyes, please."

With the last glimmer of hope, Wendy pleaded with him. But this time, she really couldn't wake Gavin up.

She was a doctor, and her professional intuition told her that Gavin was ill.

But how could it be possible?

After getting hurt, she had been living with Gavin. He had always been normal, and he always took good care of her. How could he be a patient?

He was Gavin, who was an omnipotent man. How could such a man get ill?

He had said that he would always be with her and marry her and that they would have a daughter as lovely as Romy. How could he get ill?

Wendy was unwilling to believe it, but Gavin had really collapsed. All of this happened in front of her.

"Gavin!"

The roaring fear rushed to Wendy. She was overwhelmed by it and her heart seemed to be pulled out and hung high in the air. Her tears kept falling on Gavin's face.

Even so, Gavin still did not open his eyes.

By then Noah, Brian, and the others had also come over.

Noah kept checking Gavin's condition and finally shook his head at Brian. "Call an ambulance."

Brian took out his mobile phone. The bar was adequately heated, but his hands were not warm at all. After the hospital answered his call, he almost roared and ordered the ambulance to arrive within ten minutes.

Chris tried to help Wendy up, but she immediately pushed him away.

Wendy held Gavin tightly, kept calling his name, and begged him to wake up.

Gavin did not respond at all. Wendy cried at the top of her lungs.

Usually, Gavin could not bear to see her cry. But this time, why was Gavin still unwilling to open his eyes to look at her when she was crying so sadly?

"Gavin," Wendy said in a trembling voice, "don't sleep. Please don't..."

Many of the witnesses didn't know what was going on, so they could only stand by in a daze.

Noah rushed back with a medical kit and said calmly, "Pull Wendy away and help Gavin up."

Wesley and Brian helped Gavin up, while Chris was responsible for pulling Wendy away.

Wendy was afraid that she would lose Gavin, so she was unwilling to let go of him. Chris could only pick her up and avoid touching her wound at the same time.

Joanne did not even calm down until now when faced with such a situation. She asked Brian, "How could this be? What happened to Gavin?"

Although the men present were flustered, there was no panic in their actions at all. It was obvious that they knew why Gavin had suddenly fainted.

"Gavin is ill," said Brian. "I'll tell you the whole story when we get to the hospital. You take care of Wendy first."

Joanne tried to prevent her voice from trembling. "Okay."

Wendy didn't know what was going on at all. She just wanted to go back to Gavin and kept struggling in Chris's arms. "Cousin, let me go, let me go!"

While struggling, she saw Noah open the medical kit, take out a disposable syringe as well as an injection from it, and give Gavin a hypodermic injection.

"What are you doing?" Wendy cried and shouted, "Let go of Gavin! Let him go!"

She did not know anything.

She didn't know why Gavin had fainted. She didn't know what Noah had injected into Gavin. She didn't know why everything had turned out like this.

According to her plan, things like this weren't supposed to happen. Instead, Gavin should have agreed, and then they would have held a grand celebration party.

Finally, it would be her wedding with Gavin.

Now, she was afraid.

She was afraid that her happiness was gone, and she was even more afraid that Gavin would leave her.

They had just started dating, and they still had a lot of things to do. How could Gavin leave her?

Joanne walked up to her and tried her best to refrain her voice from trembling. "Brother, let go of Wendy first."

As soon as Chris released her, Wendy was about to rush to Gavin. Joanne stopped her in time. "Wendy, Gavin is ill. Noah is a doctor. He is certainly helping Gavin."

"Cousin." Wendy's tears fell down her cheeks. She looked at Joanne helplessly. "Why did Gavin suddenly fall ill? He used to be fine and sound. Why did it happen to him? Is this a joke?"

"Wendy, I hope it's just a joke." Joanne hugged Wendy tightly and comforted her. "Don't be afraid. Your cousin-in-law is here, and Dr. Sanchez is here too. Gavin will be fine. Calm down first. The most important thing for us now is to send Gavin to the hospital."

It was not a joke. Gavin was really ill.

Wendy accepted the fact with difficulty and slowly calmed down, but she couldn't stop her tears no matter how hard she tried.

She said in a cracked voice, "Cousin, I want to accompany Gavin."

No matter what happened, no matter what she could do, she must stay with Gavin.

Seeing that Wendy had calmed down a little, Joanne nodded and let go of her.

Wendy had never been so afraid in her life. She almost stumbled over and suddenly flung herself to Gavin. She grabbed his hand helplessly and said, "Gavin..."

This time, Gavin did not kiss away her tears with a smile as usual or touch her head while telling her not to cry.

He lay on the sofa with his eyes closed and his face being pale. His palms, which used to be dry and warm, were almost frighteningly cold at the moment.

Wendy put them in her hands, trying to warm them up. But in the end, she desperately found that the little bit of warmth from her hands was just a drop in the bucket for Gavin, whose temperature was rapidly falling.

Even if she was a doctor, she could not save Gavin.

Wendy's eye sockets were hot and swollen, and the teardrops fell on the back of Gavin's hand.

But this time, Gavin really wouldn't feel worried about her.

Noah pulled out the syringe and pressed the needle holes on Gavin's arm with cotton. He turned his head and saw Wendy drowned in tears. Before he could say anything to her, the ambulance had arrived. He and Wesley helped Gavin out.

"Wendy, get up first." Brian helped Wendy up, took off his coat, and put it on her. "Come to the hospital with us."

Wendy nodded in a panic, caught up with Noah and Wesley, and got into the ambulance.

The doctors who came with the ambulance had already given intravenous fluids to Gavin and helped him put on an oxygen mask. Four or five doctors in the ambulance surrounded him.

Wendy didn't, therefore, feel at ease. On the contrary, she felt more afraid.

There were so many doctors, and each of them had the aura and calmness of top experts. This could only show that not only was Gavin seriously ill, but his illness was not simple at all.

With tears in her eyes, Wendy saw a familiar face-

"Henry!"

It was that neurologist who had been studying a certain rare genetic disease since his retirement. When she was recovering in the private hospital, she had accidentally seen him chat with Gavin.

Back then, she was too far away from Gavin, so she didn't hear what they were talking about. Later, when she asked Gavin about it, he replied that Henry was doing research in the hospital, and he had just talked with him about the progress.

At that time, she had vaguely felt that there was something wrong with the way Henry looked at Gavin, but there was nothing unusual about Gavin, so she didn't take it seriously.

Now that she thought about it, the way Henry looked at Gavin was indeed how a doctor looked at his patient.

Further thinking of Gavin's father's early death, a certain possibility came to Wendy's mind. She felt as if she had been struck by something, and she was completely hollow in an instant and became an empty shell.

She looked at Brian with fear and uncertainty. "Cousin-in-law, how did Gavin's father die? Did Mom tell you?"

Brian saw the fear in the bottom of Wendy's eyes. He couldn't bear to tell Wendy that she was right.

Wendy had already guessed the answer from Brian's hesitance to speak.

After the old expert retired, because he failed to cure one of his patients when he was young, he had been studying the patient's illness, which made her admire him very much.

However, the patient who had made Henry regret his incompetence for the rest of his life turned out to be Gavin's father.

As for Gavin... he had inherited his father's illness.

Therefore, the reason for Henry's trip to Arlington was that he wanted to continue to study the genetic disease and cure Gavin.

Not only was Gavin ill, but he had received the treatment for a long time, but she knew nothing about it.

In an instant, Wendy felt as if she was falling into an icehouse so that her hands and feet quickly cooled down. Her originally white face became as pale as a sheet of paper, and even her lips also showed no trace of red.

"Impossible." Wendy shook her head. "It's impossible!"

"Miss Moore." Henry suddenly called Wendy, "I know that you're Gavin's girlfriend. He mentioned you before."

Henry's tone and expression were very kind. It was obvious that he had something to say to Wendy.

However, Wendy wanted to cover her ears and refuse to listen to Henry, just as she refused to believe that Gavin had inherited her father's illness.

What she was afraid of was not the illness, but that Gavin would leave this world when he was very young, just like his father...