She was unable to breathe properly for a long time but then pain had vanished as soon as Robert held her in his arms. He picked her up and took her inside, he quickly helped her into the bed with his arms still around her. He accidentally touched the spot where she felt the stabbing pain and her body twitched. Robert looked at her with a worried expression, he made her sit up and removed her top to have a look at her back and his eyes widened in horror, he could not speak a word. There was a large stab wound on her back, he looked into her eyes and spoke "How did this happen?"

She looked at him with pain visible through her eyes "What is it, is there something on my back. I felt like someone stabbed me in the back while I was walking."

Robert looked dumbstruck so Jessica stepped forward to have a good look at it, her hands flew to her mouth "Oh my God, Rach, this is getting worse than we thought, I don't know how he is doing this but he is definitely harming you through the connection he has been able to establish with your mind and body. He could completely connect with you within a month but as he was only able to complete 2 weeks, he has a weak connection but he can harm you badly."

Rachel looked at her in surprise "How is that even possible, I was just there with him for 3 or 4 days and if he is doing that why would he stop all of a sudden without satisfying himself."

Robert hugged her closer to his chest making sure not to place a hand over her wound and then he answered her question "That is possible because he has been doing that with you when he lived with you and you were his girlfriend and to answer your second question as long as you are in my contact he can not have any access to your body."

Rachel looked at him with an even more shocked face, she was unable to say anything as she had so many things going on through her brain but Robert thought that she must be suspecting his intentions so he clarified "I am sure about this because last night when I tried waking you up you were not responding but when I hugged you, you finally woke and started gasping for air as if someone was trying to choke you."

She looked at him and placed a finger on his lips "I am not judging your intentions, I trust you completely but everything is to complicated that I can't bring myself to believe it. I mean just before all this happened, I never believed in magic or any supernatural thing but now that I look at it all these things exist."

Robert faced Jessica "I need some medicine to apply over her wounds."

Jessica nodded and went away to bring it, Robert looked into Rachel's eyes and spoke "I am and will always be there for you."

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Rachel took the medicine and the wound on her back slowly began to heal but she ran to feel a sharp pain in her lower abdomen after a while. She curled up in pain and began to scream, Robert hugged her tightly but the pain kept increasing.

The look on Robert's face turned worried and desperate to find any help "Why is my touch not working?" he asked Jessica.

She was worried too "I don't think he is doing it this time, I think it is something else."

Robert racked his brain and then he asked "What were the side effects of the medicine."

Jessica looked at him with a helpless and panicked expression "No the medicine didn't have any side effects, n-no, no, wait... " she took out her phone and called her family doctor, who knew about them and then she took out her wand and performed a spell to put Rachel to sleep. She feel unconscious in Robert's arms relieved of pain and Jessica breathed a sigh of relief but she knew this was not over and so did Robert so he asked panicked "What is it, Jessica?"

She was pacing around the room as she replied worried "I think she was pregnant because this medicine does cause miscarriage as it is a very high dose medicine."

Robert's face turned pale "S-She was p-pregnant that means he already..."

Jessica didn't let him finish "No, he didn't because that would not do him good but someone did and he knew about that but Rachel was not aware, she was drugged or something of this sort happened."

Blood boiled in Robert's veins, he could not bring himself to speak, his hands were shaking with anger, his eyes turned to the darkest shade of silver and with a lot of efforts he managed to speak "What now?"

"The doctor will have to remove it and then we will have to find out the truth but we can't tell her anything or she will be horrified."

Robert nodded and was about to leave when Jessica reminded him "Don't think about it, remember you can't leave her side."

He let out a cold breath and nodded again, his grip on Rachel tightened and he helped her lay into the bed while he lay next to her hugging her into his chest. As Jessica left, a tear rolled down his cheek and he felt like the most helpless person in the world, he closed his eyes and let his warm body bring some warmth to her cold body in his arms.

After a while Jessica came in with a doctor and she had already explained everything to him. She turned Rachel's room into an operation room and arranged for everything the doctor required. He asked them to leave but Robert just stood there holding her hand as he spoke with an authoritative and cold tone "I can't leave her side."

The doctor could not bring himself to go against him so he agreed and let the him stay while he started preparing not the surgery while Jessica left the room.

After the surgery was over, the doctor assured them that she would be fine. Jessica turned the room back to normal while Robert just sat next to Rachel, his fingers intertwined with hers.