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Chapter 6

作者: Clear Spring
I, his younger sister—the girl who had been doted on since childhood and would used to cry over the tiniest paper cut—was now lying on the rickety wooden bed, completely lifeless.

The bedsheets beneath me were soaked through with blood, which had seeped down onto the filthy concrete floor, pooling into a dark stain. My clothes had been stripped away, leaving me entirely bare. With that, the horrific injuries left by the car crash and the kidnappers were laid plain to see.

The wound on my neck, however, was no longer bleeding; my body was nearly drained of it. My eyes were slightly open, fixed on the mottled ceiling, and there was still a faint smile at the corners of my lips.

“Jean!”

James stumbled toward the bed, frantically tearing off his jacket with trembling hands to cover my body.

“Lucas! Lucas!” James roared, his eyes bloodshot, his voice frenzied and desperate. “Call an ambulance! No– Take us to the hospital! Now!”

Almost the second the words left his mouth, Lucas burst into the room, gasping for air.

When his eyes fell upon my half-covered body in the suit, my face still half-covered in blood, and the pool of blood beneath me, he froze. In that instant, every bit of color drained from his face.

“What are you standing there for?” James bellowed.

Snapping out of it, Lucas rushed forward to take me into his arms. However, the second his hands touched my cold, stiff body, he recoiled, feeling a chill run down his spine.

James scooped me up himself and sprinted out of the building toward the car parked at the end of the alley.

“Head to Central Hospital! Quick! Drive as fast as you damn well can!” James screamed at the driver, his voice strained.

Lucas sat in the passenger seat, his face deathly pale as he stole glances into the rear-view mirror.

James was acting like a madman. One moment he was muttering, “Don’t be scared, Jean… I’m here.”

The next, he was roaring at my unresponsive face, “Wake up! Jean Fox! I command you to wake up!”

When I didn’t react, his whole body began to shake. He buried his face into the crook of my neck, letting out a low, gut-wrenching sob.

The car rushed toward Central Hospital, where the VIP entrance had already been cleared.

James rushed into the emergency room with me in his arms, followed closely by Dr. Miller and a team of top specialists.

Standing right outside the emergency doors, James stared blankly at the door. The huge bloodstains on his suit jacket had dried into a dark, rusty brown.

Not far away, Lucas stood with his head hung low. His entire body shook, and he couldn’t look James in the eye.

In truth, I had died long ago. The emergency resuscitation was nothing more than a formal gesture performed for the family’s sake.

Finally, the doors to the emergency room opened, and Dr. Miller walked out.

“Mr. Fox… We did everything we could. I’m so sorry for your loss.”

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