Chapter 23 ed The moment the red light over the operating room finally turned green , the doctor came out . He was so used to seeing family members falling apart in the hallway that nothing surprised him anymore . " It's a good thing you got him here in time . The surgery was a success . He's just weak and will need to stay in the hospital for observation for a while . Hearing that , Nora finally felt the tension in her chest start to ease . Later , Lucas ' parents went to handle the hospital paperwork , while Lucas stayed with Nora and followed the nurses as they wheeled Walter toward the ward . Walter woke up on the third day . Looking at Nora's guilt - ridden face , he just let out a long sigh and gently wiped away her tears . " I'm getting old . It's not like before . One little fall and here I am , causing all this fuss . " Nora held his wrinkled hand and shook her head . " You're not old , Grandpa . You're going to be around a long , long time . You have to meet the baby , and you have to help us raise them , too ! " At the mention of the baby , Walter finally perked up a bit . " So , am I going to be a great - grandpa ? Then , I'd better work hard to stick around , just like you said . I want to see my great - grandchild come into this world and grow up . When Nora was seven months pregnant , she got the latest news from her friends back in Harbor City . Claire had given birth , but unfortunately , the baby was diagnosed with hemolytic disease right after being born . Even more shocking was the baby's blood type . Claire was type O , Elliot was type B , but the baby was type A. Word was that when the baby was born , the Wards left the hospital with stormy faces . Elliot never really cared for Claire , but the only reason he'd agreed to marry her in the first place was because of the baby . But it turned out the child wasn't even his . Claire hadn't even finished recovering from childbirth before rushing to the fertility clinic , where she'd undergone IVF before . After throwing a fit , she finally found out that a nurse had mixed up the samples . During the IVF process , someone else's sperm had been used by mistake . After the truth came out , the clinic fired the nurse . But even then , the Ward family wanted nothing more to do with Claire . As for Elliot , he was already resigned to living the rest of his life in a wheelchair . With his hand injury , he could never perform surgery again . If he had to raise someone else's child on top of that , he'd be a laughingstock . Chapter 23 2/2 Neither his parents nor Elliot himself could accept what had happened . But the crazy part was that the news gave Elliot a sliver of hope . The baby wasn't his , and he had never had a child with another woman . Maybe he still had a chance to get Nora to forgive him . But first , he had to divorce Claire . However , the more desperate he felt , the more things seemed to go wrong . Claire had just given birth and refused to even consider divorce , so Elliot couldn't move forward with it . Although the baby wasn't his , he couldn't actually prove she'd cheated . In fact , Claire was technically a victim in all this . Therefore , Elliot had no choice but to wait .. Six months slowly passed . During that time , Elliot heard that Nora had given birth to a baby girl with Lucas . That very day , Elliot couldn't hold back anymore . He bought a ticket on the next flight to Southport and rushed to the hospital . By the time Elliot arrived at Southport Hospital , it was already 8:00 pm . Disheveled and exhausted , Elliot appeared in front of Nora so suddenly that she almost didn't recognize him . It wasn't until he called her name in that hoarse voice that she finally realized this gaunt man was once the celebrated Dr. Ward from Harbor City Hospital . She glanced behind him and found no one else . Looking back at him , she asked curiously , " Did you come alone ? " Chapter 24