Semua Bab The CEO’s Unwanted Wife: Bab 21 - Bab 30

Raine"Clear!"His body convulsed off the stretcher with a jerking wrench, defibrillator pads humming in the antiseptic air.Beep. Beep. Beep.A flat line."Again!""Charging—clear!"I froze in the corner of the tiny ER room, arms around myself as if they could keep me from shattering into two. My teeth were sunk into my bottom lip, hard enough to have blood, but I couldn't help it. I couldn't scream.Because screaming would make it real.Cassian was dying. The gurney lurched as they shocked him once again."Come on, damn it! Don't do this!" Malik yelled beside me, fists clenched, blood still smeared across his jaw and coat. His gaze did not waver. Not once.He would not allow himself to blink.The machine screamed again.Beep—beep— A burst of light.

Raine"Don't leave me, Cassian!"I howled in silence with his lifeless body in my arms, blood seeping between my palms in warm, clotted streams. Shallow, stumbling gasps were his breathing now, and each was thinner than the last. I squeezed the wound in his stomach with both palms, attempting to stem the flow, but it was an effort to stop a flood with paper tissue.His skin was pale—too pale. His lips were trembling. His eyes burst open, rolling back in his head."No, no, no—Cassian, you died once, not again!"Pandora crouched beside us, her face white. She pulled off her belt, pushed it into my hands. "Pressure. Apply pressure to it!""I am!" I shouted. My voice cracked. I was trembling. "Where are the damn extraction team?""I already called Malik," she replied. "They're five minutes out."We don’t have five minutes. We hardly had thirty seconds.Cassian coughed. Blood bubble

Raine"There's someone in there," I whisper, my back against the cold wall outside the operating room. My heart pounds like a jackhammer. "It's her."Pandora's eyes went cold. "Who?"I did not lower my eyes from the door. "Sierra."Kade's expression changes instantly. No questions. Just steel.He pulls out a concealed Glock from behind his back, the metal glinting beneath the emergency lighting. "How sure are you?""Dead sure.""She was bleeding out," Malik explains, dazed. "You saw her fall.""No," I mutter. "I saw her disappear. There's a difference."Kade's already running. "Malik, come with me. Pandora—stay with Raine.""No way in hell I'm staying behind!" I snapped, grabbing the nearest chair to lean on. "Cassian is in there!"Pandora holds me back before I can dash in after them. "You're still bleeding.""I don't care.""You won't rescue him if yo

Raine"They know it's a girl."Those words trap my blood in my veins. The world around me went still, Cassian’s head was heavy on my lap, Malik precariously balanced beside me, and the whirring of the approaching chopper cut through the night air like a guillotine.I place my hand over Cassian's bleeding side, my eyes stinging with tears. "Cassian, don't you dare leave me."He did not answer."Malik, he is losing too much blood. We need help, now!"Malik winces, staggering to his feet. "There's a tracker on one of us. There has to be. They're too close, too fast."I clench my teeth and rip off my jacket, winding it around Cassian's midsection as a makeshift compress. "How the hell would they realize it's a girl?""They've always been one step ahead of us at every turn this whole time," Malik growls. "Medical records, compromised networks, maybe even Julian… or Roman's safe."

RaineI was going to scream when the lights flickered out again. Cassian fell, bleeding, and then I saw it. The writing on the wall.The crimson message was written across the wall in bold, trembling letters. A threat, a declaration, and a vow."You stole from me. Now I steal back."The blood used wasn’t just Cassian’s. Malik crouched beside the fallen body of Julian, his shirt soaked through, fingers shaking as he checked for a pulse that never came."Dead," Malik rasped.Julian—Julian, who had carried us through fire and hell to get here, was gone.Cassian wheezed beside me. “They knew we’d come here… This wasn’t a strike—it was a trap.”Pandora was already moving, clearing the safe house, gun at the ready, teeth clenched. "We have to go. We're compromised.""But we were supposed to be safe," I whispered. "Roman promised—""Well, well, Roman's dead," she snarled. "And Sierra is not."The gruff sound of Cassian fighting for breath jolted me back to reality. I held his face. "We have