Semua Bab His Dead Wife: No Longer the Surrogate Bride: Bab 261 - Bab 267

"Please take Nicholas to the east wing."Althea didn't look up from the medical reports spread across the command table as she put in her request to one guard.Outside, floodlights illuminated the landing zone while emergency personnel rushed back and forth preparing for incoming casualties.Helena glanced at her."The east wing?" She asked.Althea nodded as she continued reviewing injury reports."The helicopters will be loud." She answered as her voice remained calm, clinical and controlled. The same voice she used before entering an operating room. "The sirens will scare him especially when he hears too many and he will get curious. And you know, what he does when his curiosity is turned on."Helena's eyes softened and nodded.Althea finally looked up."I already asked Seraphina to keep him occupied." She added softly, a tiny smile touched her lips despite the tension gripping her chest. "She told me that she will show him Alessandro's old observatory. But God help me once his inte

The sun had long disappeared over Blackstone.Midnight came and went, the noise still not dying down at the medical wing.Nurses and guards come and go, treating and assisting the injured. They would just stop briefly to take a breath and then continue their way, making sure that all had been taken care.Then one o'clock.Then two.Yet Blackstone Estate still remained awake.The emergency floodlights continued illuminating the temporary medical compound while exhausted doctors, nurses, surgeons, and support staff fought through the final wave of casualties.Hours earlier, death had arrived on helicopters.Now survival was winning despite it being slowly and painfully.One patient at a time.Operating Room One finally opened and Benjamin finally stepped out first before the patient he operated on was wheeled out.The older surgeon looked every bit his age and every bit the legend he was.His surgical cap had been removed, his silver hair damp with sweat, contrasting with the dark circl

Two weeks.That was what Althea said but Dominic still finds himself recovering.According to Dominic, he had recovered eleven days ago.Today is now his eighteenth day of recovery.However, according to everyone else in Blackstone, neither opinion mattered because Dr. Althea Johnson Valtieri had already made her ruling.And no one, not even Dominic Valtieri, the head of Blackstone could argue with her rulings for long.At least not successfully."Papa."Dominic, sitting on his bed, looked up from the report he was pretending to read, third day of recovering from his injuries. He saw Nicholas standing in the doorway.Nicholas stood with hands on his hips, looking very serious and determined.Far too much like both his parents."Yes, Nico?” Dominic asked calmly as he placed the report on his bedside table.Nicholas marched into the room."You cheated, Papa." He commented seriously.Dominic frowned."I have no idea what you're talking about." He responded patiently."You left your room.