Chapter 52 - Chapter 52

Her fragile body was cradled against my chest as I held her close to me. In the back seat, my driver drove like a madman towards the hospital. Perhaps his urgency was because of how I had threatened his life. I wasn't going to lose her. Not this one. Not again. The adrenaline that had fueled my actions inside that house had begun to subside. I felt hopeless, and that wasn't a feeling I liked. Glancing over at her, I couldn't shake the image of her lifeless body on that bed or the haunting sight of Number One holding her head under the water. She was bleeding over my chest, and there was nothing I could do about it. This overwhelming sense of hopelessness was what I hated the most. But she was still breathing. The rhythmic sounds of her breaths were like a lifeline that drowned out my anxious thoughts. Her face was pale, almost white.