Chapter 69

Killian

I sleepwalked through the all process of wiping the blood away from my hands and strapping into a blue overall. My brain didn't recollect any information, except the one where I was being ushered into a room with doctors hovering around the elevated bed like wild animals.

I carefully stepped inside, My heart wrenching painfully in my chest as my eyes landed on Hope.

She was laying with a thick pink blanket draped over her parted legs. Her pale face was strained with tears, her hair flying wildly across her face. She was sweating, eyes closed tight with the pain.

"Hope, you need to push," the doctor demanded, but she shook her head, groaning in pain.

"I can't," she breathed, keeping her eyes closed as her legs quivered. "I can't. It hurts."

"Hope..." My voice broke as I moved closer to her, calling her desperately and I wasn't sure if she had heard me but then her bloodshot eyes pushed open and the moment they met mine, my chest felt tight; like I was being suffocated.

"Ki