Sorry I Can't Stay

It was one sentence. 

It was only five words, but still the room grew silent instantly. The air was charged with power and the unignorable command.

All motion ground to a halt, and as if compelled, Midwife Lee did as he was told. All the while the midwife shivered. This wasn't right, he knew it deep down, but he was powerless to defy the silver haired ger with the glowing eyes.

Midwife Lee wanted to insist on making some concoction or other, to fight for his new benefactor's life, or at least not abandon it. Xu Feng had the strongest will he had ever seen in a new dad. In any person.

The situation was so bleak, but still, he pushed out not one, but two, TWO healthy eggs while his body grew colder and colder. Yet this person wanted him to give up on them without a fight.

Midwife Lee didn't know when, but new tears welled up in his eyes as he followed the new commands.