ログイン(ELARA’S POV)**The silence after Sophie left felt heavier than the fight itself.My throat still burned where her hand had been. My wrist ached where she twisted it. My chest still felt tight, like I couldn’t fully pull in air.I stayed on the floor for a moment, leaning against the bedroom door, trying to steady myself.Then I heard it again.Matteo.Not loud. Not distant. Close enough that my body reacted before my mind could understand it.My heart dropped.That wasn’t possible.Not here.Not inside Dante’s apartment.I pushed myself up slowly. My legs felt weak as I scanned the hallway outside my room.“Elara.”My name followed it this time.I froze.That was worse.It wasn’t just a voice anymore. It was directed at me.I stepped toward the door carefully.“Matteo?” I called out, my voice shaking despite me trying to hold it steady. “Where are you?”No answer.Like something moved without sound.Then the lights cut out.Instantly.. No warning. Just darkness.My breath caught.T
# **ELARA’S POV**The apartment didn’t feel like an apartment anymore.It felt like silence had survived a war.I sat on the edge of the couch, phone still glowing in my hand, Chloe’s image frozen on the last frame of the video.Her smile stayed in place even after I stopped the screen.I didn’t move for a while.Then I swiped.Matteo.My brother.I stared at the name.Something in my chest shifted.I pressed call.Ring.No answer.I tried again.Ring.Still nothing.My fingers tightened.“Answer,” I said under my breath.Again.Nothing.Again.Nothing.I stood up suddenly.“No…”I tried again, walking now.Still nothing.I stopped.The silence on the line didn’t feel normal anymore.It felt blocked.Like something was standing between me and him.The door opened.Sophie walked in with grocery bags and placed them on the counter.“You’ve been sitting there for twenty minutes.”I didn’t look at her.“Elara.”“I heard you.”“Then respond.”I turned slowly.“I need to call my brother. Th
**DANTE’S POV**The scream still echoed in my head long after the gunshot faded.“Dad!”Everything after that became chaos.Doctors rushed through the hallway. Nurses cried while security pushed people away from the emergency ward downstairs. The entire hospital looked like it had been ripped apart in seconds.Elara tried getting off the bed immediately.“Hey,” I said quickly, stopping her. “Where are you going?”“They shot him.”Her voice shook with anger, not fear.Sofia moved toward her. “Elara, calm down.”“No.” She pulled her hand away. “They shot him because he begged them to save his daughter.”The nurses stayed quiet.None of them could even defend it.One of the security guards appeared outside the room. “We need everyone to remain inside.”“Elara is not moving anywhere,” Sofia said firmly.But Elara was already standing.Weak.Shaking slightly.Still furious.“You people promised that girl treatment,” she said, staring directly at the nurses near the wall. “Then you sold her
## **DANTE’S POV**The sound downstairs didn’t just carry through the hospital.It ripped through it.Chloe’s scream hit again, sharper this time, like something inside her had finally cracked open and wouldn’t close.“Dad!”Elara stiffened beside me instantly. Her fingers tightened around mine so hard I felt it in my bones.Sofia was already moving toward the door.“Stay here,” she said quickly, but none of us listened.Because something about that kind of scream doesn’t let people stay put.We stepped into the hallway and the hospital changed in front of us.What had been controlled panic upstairs had become full collapse downstairs.Footsteps everywhere.Doors slamming.Voices overlapping until nothing made sense anymore.Then the smell hit.His Blood was everywhere.We reached the lobby and everything stopped feeling real.Daniel was on the floor.Blood spread beneath him like it had been given permission to take over the room.The gun lay a few feet away, untouched now, almost fo
**DANTE’S POV**The doors burst open.Two nurses rushed inside first.One of them was crying.“Lock the ward,” she said breathlessly. “Call security.”Sofia stepped forward immediately. “What happened?”Before the nurse could answer, another loud bang echoed through the hallway.Not close this time.Somewhere downstairs.Elara flinched on the bed.Her fingers tightened around mine.“What’s going on?” I asked.The second nurse looked shaken. “There’s a man downstairs with a gun.”The room went still.“He’s threatening the doctors,” she continued. “They tried to stop him and he started shooting.”Another crash echoed through the building.Glass shattered.People screamed.Sofia looked toward the door. “Why hasn’t security handled it?”“They tried,” the nurse whispered. “He’s out of control.”Elara’s breathing changed again.I leaned closer to her. “Hey. Look at me.”But her eyes were already fixed on the doorway.Listening.Another shout echoed from outside.This time louder.“You promis
**DANTE’S POV**“She’s back.”Sofia’s voice cut through the room the second the monitor came alive.A single beep followed.Then another.It wasn’t strong, but it was there. Real. Present.For a moment, no one spoke. No one moved. The silence that had filled the room just seconds ago broke apart like glass.“Hold her,” Sofia said immediately.That snapped everything into motion.Nurses moved in fast, surrounding the bed, checking lines, adjusting equipment, calling out readings in low, steady voices. The chaos returned, but it was controlled now. Directed.I stepped forward without thinking.No one stopped me this time.“Elara,” I said.Her body reacted before her mind did. A small jerk against the bed, like she was trying to pull herself back from somewhere deep and heavy.Her lips moved.“No…”It was faint. Broken. But it was her voice.I froze for half a second.“She’s responding,” one of the nurses said.Sofia didn’t look away from the monitor.“Keep her stable,” she ordered.I mo







