Filed to story: Mr Williams Madame Is Dying Novel Free Online (Madison & Hunter)
Looking sideways at Madison, he let out an apologetic smile. “Sorry, Madison. I can’t keep it a secret anymore.”
The uneasiness grew within Hunter as his fingers slowly curled into fists. “What … What’s wrong with Madie?” Vince announced with emphasis, /Stomach cancer.”
Hunter immediately froze, and color drained from Janice’s face.
Even Haroid couldn’t believe his ears. “Nonsense! Madison’s been healthy all the while. Why would she suddenly have stomach cancer?”
Vince removed Hunter’s hands from Madison. Anger flared in his eyes as he explained, “When you were fighting because of a divorce two years ago, she already had Stage Three cancer. Look at her. I’m afraid it has already advanced to the last stage.”
Those last words pulled Hunter back into his senses.
Madison was exhausted from coughing up blood and Hunter quickly carried her up. Without a care in the world, he ran outside.
“Madie, you’re gonna be fine. I’ll take you to the hospital right now. You’ll be fine,” he said.
But unbeknownst to them, it was already raining.
Raindrops trickled on Madison’s face.
She raised her head weakly and looked at the glisten in Hunter’s eyes. She wondered if the water droplets were tears or raindrops.
But it seemed like nothing mattered anymore. Madison could feel something invisible sucking her soul away.
She had so many things to say, and it suffocated her chest.
Hunter was in such a hurry that he almost tripped onto the ground. Anyone could tell how anxious he was because of this.
Chris’ words kept replaying in Hunter’s head, “Mr. Williams, M1 doesn’t have much effect on ordinary people. Old people, kids, and pregnant women, especially cancer patients, are not allowed to take them.”
“What happens if they take it?” he had asked.
“M1 can erase a person’s memories, as well as shut their immune system down. If a cancer patient’s immune system is compromised, the cancer cells can’t be killed and will spread very quickly. It might even spread within their whole body.
“It’ll be a disastrous situation for the patient.”
Never in Hunter’s wildest imagination had he thought that Madison was suffering from such an illness. It was no wonder she didn’t have any side effects other than gastric pain after regaining her consciousness.
Etahn had hurt her sore spot, and he rued his decision.
Like a frantic child, he kept apologizing to Madison, “Madie, I’m sorry. I didn’t want it to turn out this way. I didn’t know.”
Warm tears fell onto Madison’s face.
Although Madison had a lot of questions in her head, she calmed down after realizing that she was reaching the end of her life.
Staring at the raining sky, she softly said, “Hunter, I’m so tired …”
Be it love, resentment or memories, she didn’t want to question them anymore. She simply felt that someone was sucking her dry, as though her soul was slowly leaving her body.
“Madie, I will never let you leave my side.” Hunter placed a bloody Madison into the passenger seat. “I’ll take you to the hospital right now.”
Madison’s face was pallid as she caressed Hunter’s face. “If I can’t live long, just let me go.”
“Don’t say such words. You’ll be fine,” Hunter said.
But Madison’s fingers slowly slid down his cheek, and she gradually shut her eyes.
She was so tired.
She needed to rest.
Before losing consciousness, Madison could hear Hunter’s anguished scream. But that had nothing to do with her anymore.
Madison didn’t have any objective in her life anyway. The only thing that comforted her was the fact that she had had a sweet family and a loving husband.
But in the end, it all turned out to be lies. Her wonderful dream was shattered.
So what reason did she have to go on living her life?
Madison was sent to the emergency room.
Chris felt his world crumble when he heard about it. The ominous feelings he had had come true.
He immediately took the earliest flight from Aldenvine and went over to her.
Outside the emergency room, Hunter was there with his shirt covered in Madison’s blood. But he paid it no mind and his eyes slowly turned bloodshot.
Brent approached Hunter cautiously. After hesitating, he said, “Mr. Williams, I got someone to go to the hospital Vince used to work at to retrieve Mrs. Williams’s medical record.”
Hunter stood with his hands behind his back and a cold expression on his face. He had been deep in thought until Brent spoke to him.
Brent handed him the medical reports. There were two of them.
“The first report contains the results of the tests done when Mrs. Williams fainted while caring for Mr. Evans. Vince suspected that she had a tumor in her stomach, so he performed an endoscopy on her and discovered it was Stage Three stomach cancer.
“The second report was from when you’d asked Chris to give Mrs. Williams a full-body checkup. After looking into it, we discovered the CT scan report had been tampered. The cancer would’ve shown up on the scan, but someone bribed a doctor and altered the report so we wouldn’t notice.”
Hunter’s fingers trembled when he looked at the size of the tumor on the report.
He then looked at the date of the report and realized that the examination was done when he was out doing the checkups with Connor.
Madison, who had not been talking to him for three months, suddenly called him that day. Her voice over the phone was different from her usual self. She had sounded very fatigued and weak.
He could still remember her tone when she said, “Hunter, let’s get a divorce.”
She had found out that she had cancer at that point in time. She was probably terrified.
What was he doing then? He went back to a lifeless home with withered flowers in vases.
It was clear that something was wrong. Madison loved life. She wouldn’t allow the flowers to wither if she could help it.
Why didn’t he notice sooner? Why didn’t he believe her, even though she told him repeatedly that she was Hunter clenched his fingers and slightly crumpled the report in his hands.
When Madison needed him the most, he had hurt her over and over because he wanted revenge. He claimed to love her, but he was always the one who hurt her the most.
Vince stood behind Hunter.
He could only see Hunter’s lowered head, but not his expression.
He said softly, “I told her she wasn’t in the terminal stage yet. There was still a 50 percent chance of recovery. But she gave up on treatment. Do you know why?”
Hunter knew the reason very well.
The pressure she felt was crushing her. He had even hid the truth about his relationship with Andrea from her. Both her family’s situation and love life were pushing her to the edge. She had nothing else to live for.
“It was me,” Hunter replied.
“Yes. You were the reason. She had decided to go through with treatment. I even got her through a session of chemotherapy. The effects were good too. But that silly woman gave up again. She said it was because she owed it to you,” Vince said.
Hunter’s usually upright back was hunched over. His shoulders were trembling as tears rolled down his face and fell onto the report.
Vince slowly walked toward Hunter, a proud man turned into a wreck.
He looked at Hunter coldly and questioned him, “So, did she really owe you anything? Or do you owe her everything?”
She had actually gone for chemotherapy once!
That was something Hunter didn’t know about.
His voice was hoarse as he said slowly, “That happened in the few days you were taking care of her?”
“Yes. She came to the hospital every day back then. She was working multiple jobs to take care of Mr.
Evans. She was growing more frail by the day. And when she was diagnosed with cancer, she didn’t even have anyone to sign the authorization for the chemotherapy,” Vince replied.
He continued, “She needed to leave the hospital the day after the chemotherapy. That was when her body was at its weakest. Her head would have been spinning, and she would have been bedridden too. But she lied and said she had a friend to care for her.
“When I finally found out, she was already bedridden, alone, and couldn’t even get up. After a few days, when the side effects of chemotherapy had passed, she immediately went through with the divorce.”
Even Vince was shaken by the things he was saying. “Madison was resistant to anesthesia and needed a mediport inserted. The doctors had to cut open her arm to insert the mediport.
“Not long after the first chemotherapy session, I saw her injure her hand. Do you know how dangerous it would be if the mediport had fallen off?”
Hunter could imagine what Madison was going through as Vince was retelling the events. He finally knew why Madison looked pale and weakened whenever he saw her.
And the laughable thing was that he thought she was just putting up an act to stop the divorce.
She wasn’t in the best shape when Connor fell down, but she leaped toward him to save him anyway. Who knew how long she was lying in the snow?
Vince added, “She was still so young. Her wound had just closed up, and they had to cut her up to take out the device. Do you know how much pain she was put through?”
Hunter didn’t know, because no matter how much she was hurting, what he did next devastated her even more.
He was the one who caused her life to be full of hardships. He was the one who sent her into despair when she was already dangling on the edge.
She was completely spent because of him, and he was the one that destroyed her completely. No wonder everyone else was telling him to treat Madison better.
But he never listened.
The door of the emergency room finally opened.
But Madison was still unconscious.
Hunter quickly went up to the doctor. “How’s my wife doing, doctor?”
The doctor removed his face mask and said sternly, “What the hell have you been doing? The patient bled so much, which meant she should’ve displayed symptoms before. Why have you only brought her here now? We already took some samples. We’ll know the specifics after the biopsy.”
Looking at Hunter’s pained expression, the doctor added, “Based on my experience, the patient is probably in Stage Four. You have to be prepared for the worst.”
Hunter staggered backward.
Brent quickly came up and stopped him from falling over. “Be careful, Mr. Williams.”
The doctor quickly left. He still needed to perform examinations on Madison and provide treatment.
The cold winter air flowed in and Hunter felt a chill consuming him.
He stared blankly at the nurses as they pushed Madison into the next room for examinations. It was like he was frozen in place.
After a while, Hunter raised his head to look at Vince. “There’s still hope for Stage Four cancer, right?”
Hunter grabbed Vince’s hand like his life depended on it. Vince looked at him without a shred of pity, only indifference. He said slowly, “If she had gone through with treatment two years ago and recovered over five years without any complications. She had a high chance of recovering. But her condition is so much worse now.
“Most stage four patients only have a couple of months to live. In some extreme cases, they would only have a few days.”
Hunter’s lips quivered. “What did you say? A few days?”
Vince pulled his hand away. “When it comes to Stage Four, the cancer cells would have spread everywhere. There’s no point in going through any treatment anymore. It’s out of our hands now. No one can save her.”
Madison’s test results came out quickly, and it was indeed Stage Four cancer. The worst thing was that it had already spread to her head. There was an early-stage malignant tumor in her head.
After a consultation gathering of various oncology experts, the consensus was similar to Vince’s opinion. They also advised against treatment.
Hunter’s gaze was cold. “You haven’t even given it a shot. Why would you just give up?”
The head of the hospital wiped the sweat on his forehead and said, “Mr. Williams, cancer is unlike any other illness. If it had been discovered earlier, we could just remove it surgically.
“But Mrs. Williams is already in the terminal stage. You saw how extensive the tumor was. It doesn’t meet the requirement for surgical removal. We’ve also discovered a tumor in her head, where there’s a lot of cranial nerves, so surgery is also ill-advised.”
The head of the hospital noticed Hunter’s expression growing colder. He quickly added, “There is also the option of conservative treatment. We can start Mrs. Williams on a round of chemotherapy. But… the side effects are serious. If Mrs. Williams is frail, the chemotherapy would only work against her.
“There are quite a lot of patients that don’t die from the cancer, but instead, they die from the side effects of chemotherapy.
“Normally, when a patient reaches the terminal stage, their mental and physical state would be terrible. Chemotherapy would be torture to them. The effects aren’t that positive either. We would usually advise the family members to stop the treatment.”
