"Take me instead and leave my daughter alone Liana." Moses said with trembling voice.
"But that's not the deal Moses, do you want me to remind you what it is about?" One of the men behind Liana walked up to him and punched the man holding the baby on his guts. Moses fell to his knees with the baby in his hands.
"Let my child go Moses and think of consoling your wife when she finds out about her dead baby." Liana said and the man took the child away from Moses.
Little rose started crying again this time louder than before. She has bonded with her father and didn't want to be held by anyone else but she had no strength to fight the man taking her away from him. Moses had been outnumbered and couldn't fight back, he gritted his teeth as he watched the man take his child away.
"Please don't do this Liana, I'll do anything you want." He begged surrendering to her mercy and the woman before him smiled.
"Do you know how hard it is finding dead children these days?" Another man beside her brought a dead baby from the sack in his hands and placed it on Rose's bed.
"I wish I could help Moses. But a deal is a deal. You should have thought of this when you were willing and desperate for money." She clicked her tongue.
Little Rose has not stopped crying even for a minute since they took her away from her father. "Bring the child Tim." Liana instructed the man holding the baby and he gave her the baby. She stared at the baby in her hands with a smirk.
It's a pity this little pitiful thing would pay for all of her father's crime. Who knew she would finally get her revenge against Moses? As if Rose could sense her devious plans, her screams got louder.
"Hush baby, save the cry for when you grow up." She tried to shut the baby but the cry only intensified.
Moses closed his eyes at his daughters screams. He got up immediately to take her away from Liana but was punched so hard in his gut again by one of her men and he fell to the floor puking saliva and water since he hasn't eaten in a while.
"Now now my child. From now on your name is Jacquetta." Liana then turned to look at the man struggling on the floor. "I don't want you close to this child Moses, if you do I'll have your head spiked to one of the many sticks in my backyard." She said coldly before stepping out of the room.
Due to the noise in there the other children started crying and screaming for the nurses to step in. They moved past the man on the floor to inspect the children only to see a dead baby on the bed.
The nurse who checked the children ran back to the doctor who came in quickly to check the child. "Mr Koslov." The doctor called astonished by the man on the floor. From the bed the nurse has pointed to him, he could tell the dead baby laid in was Koslov's daughters bed.
But what could kill a healthy baby? He was sure he double checked her and knew she was perfectly fine.
"I want to have a word with you doctor." Moses said.
Once Moses was done talking to the doctor, he quickly went to his wife's ward to console her for what the doctor would announce to her soon. He had everything planned out. His wound has been cleaned leaving a few unsuspicious marks on his face.
He could already imagine her scream and he hated himself for the mistake he had made but he would try to comfort her. He would always be there for her. He will help her grow out of it, they could have other children together, and when he's established enough again, he would take his daughter back.
Moses entered Jocelyn's room to see her sleeping so peacefully on the bed. He had been too used to bossy women, but got attracted to Jocelyn's calm nature thereby falling crazily in love with her and forfeiting his life before.
He sat next to her and entwined their hands together. "I love you." He whispered.
"I love you too." She whispered back opening her eyes to look at him. A small smile forming on her delicate lips which reminded him so much of his now sold daughter. She had given birth to her little self with his eyes.