oxygen mask, every breath felt lik

ath. The doctors had said that if she had arrive

heard Aria's weak sobbing from the next room.

u won't. Hang on. I'll get someone t

is running low," the

argument. "Nina and Aria have t

ntire bo

elt as if her soul h

er. Now he was willing to drain

l! Dr. Avery just suffered massive blood loss. Her hemogl

re cold. "She's tough. Aria has l

trembled. "This rea

ly, carrying the unmistakable pressure of a mafia he

erced her vein, Ni

letting the warm blood flow drop b

hing more than a resource that c

ion lasted f

plummeted, and the heart monito

. "The patient is

er coldly. "Stabilize

oe is out

and walked away wi

she heard those words. A tear slipped fr

day and night befo

shed and stitched back together. Sh

d in wearing a patient's gown, her c

bed, her voice syrupy sweet. "Julian said your blood

her eyes and

Do you know what you are? Just a tool. I'm

d her eyes, her voi

sneered. "What do

least I didn't fake an i

grabbed the glass from the bedside table

collapsed, blood instant

Aria covered in blood, he immediatel

tear-filled eyes. "She... she

tested urgently. "Sh

her up," he ordered the bodyguards. "N

amed. "You believe

a, I've already shown you more mercy than you

ia away witho

the bed as silent tears

even ange

ined was a ba

checked herself ou

pital entrance, a black Mayba

was the butler from the B

well would like you t

run through her body. A ba

-old estate outside the city, th

revealing rows of guards in

head seat, his e

he gaze behind his gold-rimme