Anna Jadwin feels like she was struck by lightning: "What did you say? You said I had a hysterectomy?"
[Wayne, where are you? I'm having surgery at the hospital, could you come to pick me up?]
[Surgery? What are you doing at the hospital?]Raphael Bailey's reply.
[I don't want to have a child implanted in me, I want a divorce... I've thought it through, a hysterectomy is the only option.]
[Anna Jadwin, have you gone mad?]
[I'm fine. The anesthetic made the procedure painless, Wayne, you have to come.]
The text message imitates the tone she usually uses when addressing Raphael Bailey...
Anna Jadwin stares blankly at the text, almost believing it was sent in her sleep.
But she doesn't understand the term "implant a child."
She had recently had an abortion, so why would she go so crazy and have a hysterectomy?
"It was Sarah Bailey—," she said hoarsely, "only she could set me up, and the servants would only obey her orders... cough, cough, cough..."