ANMELDEN"Only one person in the back maam," the medic said, lifting Arabella onto the stretcher with the help of the others. "Keep her talking while we drive. She's going into shock." "Arabella, hold my hand," Marisol cried, grabbing the edge of the blanket as they began wheeling the stretcher out of the p
“Then stop shouting and help her instead of making it worse,” I replied coldly, stepping closer but not close enough to interfere with the medics who had not yet arrived. "The private team will get here faster than a city ambulance anyway. Just keep her still." I knelt down in the glass next to Ar
My feet felt like they had sunk straight into the marble floor and refused to move. All I could see was the red spreading across the rug, slow and heavy, like the house itself had started bleeding. The sharp, metallic smell of blood filled the air, and my stomach twisted into a tight, violent knot
Neither Eloise nor Maisie noticed him at first. Maisie was currently explaining another problem to Eloise with that same exaggerated, dramatic patience. Eloise was leaning in close, listening with genuine, undivided attention, intentionally offering a ridiculously wrong suggestion just to make Maisi
For a moment she genuinely wondered if she had imagined it. The word hit her so unexpectedly that her brain seemed to stall completely, entirely unable to process the sound waves that had just reached her ears. Mommy. Not Eloise. Not Miss Eloise. Mommy. She opened her mouth, but her throat
A beat of silence followed before she spoke in a tiny voice. “Hello.” I sighed. She grinned. The little menace knew exactly what she was doing. By the time we reached the car, I was already fighting a smile, for reasons I couldn’t quite explain, that felt like progress. The drive home started i







