Chapter 2

She instinctively took a step back, a flash of disgust in her eyes.

“Disgusting…You're repulsive.”

She played with her freshly done nails.

“I’ve changed my mind. Watching you eat is sickening. Wait until the family’s lawyer arrives and sign the liability waiver. Only then can you leave.”

My mouth was overflowing with blood as I glared at her intently.

I didn't scream, nor did I shout insults.

At my wits' end, I knew very well that as long as she stood there unharmed and issuing orders, the doctors outside would never get in.

My baby couldn't wait for any lawyer. For the sake of my child, I had to create absolute chaos to tear open this fatal roadblock, even if it meant dying together.

A surge of desperate strength suddenly erupted from deep inside me.

In a split second, I broke free from the henchmen holding me down and lunged at Sophia and bit down hard on her ear. The metallic taste of blood instantly exploded in my mouth.

Sophia let out a blood-curdling scream.

“Ah! My ear! Get this lunatic off me! Quick!”

Three henchmen swarmed forward at once.

As they slammed their gun stocks heavily against my back, it felt as though my spine had shattered.

Yet I didn't utter a single sound. Instead, I used the momentum to curl into a ball, shielding my lower abdomen beneath me. No matter how savagely they beat me, I refused to let go of the hands protecting my belly.

I was pinned tightly against the cold snow.

One man drew a tactical military knife and aimed it straight at the Achilles tendon in my right leg.

“You’re dead, hurting Miss Sophia like that.”

Just as the blade was about to sever my tendon, an out-of-control heavy snowplow roared as it plowed straight into the scene. It crashed directly into two of the black SUVs blocking the road, flipping them over.

A bearded military veteran jumped out of the driver's cab. Holding a shotgun, he opened fire straight at the henchmen.

The blast of the shotgun forced Brett’s henchmen to scramble for cover.

The veteran roared at the top of his lungs, “Medical team! Get in there now!”

The chaos I had started, combined with the veteran's gunfire, completely ignited the crowd’s fury. Enraged civilians grabbed bricks and snowballs, pelting the armed men in black, and the perimeter line was forcefully torn open.

Two paramedics rushed in, dragging a stretcher behind them. They kneeled in the snow and quickly checked my condition.

“Severe hemorrhaging! Third-trimester trauma—we might lose the baby! Get her on the stretcher and start IV fluids immediately!”

I lay weakly beside the stretcher, the wrenching pain in my abdomen nearly tearing me apart as the blood beneath me flowed faster and faster. I didn't even have the strength left to lift a hand, so I could only tilt my head up, my blood-stained lips trembling faintly.

“Doctor… Save... save my child...”

Even though my voice was as faint as a whisper, I kept my eyes locked on theirs, silently pleading for help.

The paramedic’s eyes filled with tears as they hoisted me onto the ambulance.

“Don't talk! Save your strength! We need to get you to hospital immediately!”

My consciousness wavered as I finally lost the last bit of my strength.

The paramedic bellowed frantically into his radio, “Notify Sacred Heart Hospital to prepare the OB-GYN emergency operating room immediately! Assemble blood reserves from the blood bank!

“Move, move, move!”

Ten minutes later, the ambulance slammed on its brakes and screeched to a halt outside the emergency room entrance of Sacred Heart Hospital.

However, the doors were tightly shut.

Not a single nurse pushing a crash cart came out to meet us, and behind the glass doors of the ER, men in black suits stood in a line.

The paramedic kicked open the ambulance door and screamed at the people inside.

“Open the door! The pregnant woman is severely hemorrhaging and having a miscarriage! Any more delay and both of them will die!”