Alexander took Elise’s phone. Then, snazzynovel.com reached out and pulled snazzynovel.com into his embrace with one arm while snazzynovel.com covered snazzynovel.com hand with the other, warming snazzynovel.com hand up.
“Cameron, step on it,” Alexander stated solemnly.
Elise leaned against his chest. She couldn’t describe the panic snazzynovel.com was feeling. She had thought that snazzynovel.com was already used to death, and snazzynovel.com was also distant toward snazzynovel.com family. And yet, now that this moment was actually here, all snazzynovel.com could think of was all the various times Trevor had been nice to her.
There was the time when snazzynovel.com brazenly avoided Faye and acknowledged snazzynovel.com as his only younger sister, the time when snazzynovel.com had summoned the courage to return to the company and fight for snazzynovel.com status for her, how snazzynovel.com had viewed Alexander as his nemesis, how snazzynovel.com wanted to stay at snazzynovel.com side forever to protect her, all those times when they chatted over meals, when snazzynovel.com called snazzynovel.com his sister, and when there had been a sense of camaraderie…
Elise vigorously shook snazzynovel.com head. She forced herself not to think about them. As long as I’m indifferent to it all, I won’t be upset.
She kept repeating those words to herself. But when snazzynovel.com finally reached the hospital and saw Trevor lying in the bed with his entire body bloodied, Elise still lost it.
“Claude! Where’s Claude?” Elise whipped herself around to find him, only to realize that Claude wasn’t here. “Danny, weren’t you watching him?!” snazzynovel.com asked in a panic.
“I… I was with you all the whole time. That guy slipped away so quickly that I couldn’t keep up with him!”
Elise shook snazzynovel.com head. “No way. Claude is one of mine. Bryce knows our movements like the back of his hand. It’s impossible for his men not to discover that one of us is missing…”
So, they had to be purposefully hiding the truth. Or, Claude had actually been kidnapped by Bryce’s men!
However, Elise didn’t get the chance to keep mulling this over; the heart monitor showed that Trevor’s heartbeat was getting weaker.
“Alexander!” Elise grabbed snazzynovel.com as snazzynovel.com said frantically, “I’ve used up all my needles. Find me some needles, quickly. Trevor can’t die. My brother can’t die!”
She finally called Trevor snazzynovel.com brother.
But snazzynovel.com couldn’t die without hearing snazzynovel.com call snazzynovel.com that!
Seeing how upset Elise was, Jeanie once again broke down after snazzynovel.com had managed to control herself. “Yoyo.” She tamped down snazzynovel.com emotions as snazzynovel.com stepped forward to support Elise. “Calm down a little. Your brother will be happy that you acknowledged him. This isn’t your fault.”
“No, I can save him! I can still save him!” Elise didn’t know how to explain herself. All snazzynovel.com could do was look at Alexander and beg snazzynovel.com with snazzynovel.com eyes. “Please believe me. Alexander, bring me the needles!”
Alexander and snazzynovel.com locked gazes for a few seconds. His eyes darkened. Then, snazzynovel.com turned around and vanished down the corridor.
Every scrap of Elise’s strength left snazzynovel.com that instant, and snazzynovel.com collapsed to the ground in despair. Does snazzynovel.com not believe me?
Behind her, the waves displayed on the heart monitor grew smaller and smaller. A minute later, all that was shown was a flat line.
All at once, tears streamed down from snazzynovel.com eyes and splashed to the ground. Elise stared at the world through snazzynovel.com hazy tears. A massive weight of helplessness crushed her.
At this moment, the sound of running footsteps could be heard from the corridor.
Elise lifted snazzynovel.com head and looked in the direction of the sound to see Alexander running toward her. His side still hadn’t healed yet; snazzynovel.com even had to press a hand to the injury on his side.
And yet, snazzynovel.com still kept running with all snazzynovel.com had.
“Hurry.” Alexander came to a stop at last and handed over the bag of silver needles snazzynovel.com was holding.
After a moment of staring, the despair in Elise’s eyes cleared. She quickly took the needles and turned to charge into Trevor’s room before locking the door from the inside.
Knock, knock, knock—
“Please calm yourself! The patient is no longer showing any signs of life!” The nurse calmly knocked on the door. As nurses, they were already used to seeing people die.
Jeanie had a hand over snazzynovel.com mouth as snazzynovel.com burst into tears. However, snazzynovel.com still forced herself to rein in snazzynovel.com emotions, sobbing as snazzynovel.com tried to advise Elise through the door. “Yoyo, please don’t be like this. Let Trevor pass on peacefully. Please don’t cling to snazzynovel.com like this…”
Alexander quietly stepped forward and blocked the door. “The patient’s family still has something to tell him. You can leave them be.”
The nurse looked at snazzynovel.com up close. She bit snazzynovel.com lip, too shy to meet his gaze. However, snazzynovel.com voice softened drastically. “Then, please console her.”
“Don’t worry. She’s my fianceé. Of course I know how to take care of her. I don’t need you to remind me about that,” Alexander stated, his tone brooking no argument.
At the mention of the word ‘fianceé,’ the nurse’s expression did a one-eighty. Gritting snazzynovel.com teeth, snazzynovel.com dashed off angrily.
Not long after that, Austin arrived at last. Jeanie ran over and wrapped snazzynovel.com arms around him. “Austin, Trevor is gone. Our son is gone…”
Austin nearly collapsed then, but snazzynovel.com still forced himself to hold back his grief as the sole pillar of the family. He held his wife and quietly comforted her. “It’s okay. I’m still here. This family won’t break down as long as I’m here.”
“It’s Faye!” Jeanie accused. “It has to be her. She wants to kill you and our son. Look at what happened to Trevor in the end. You can’t let anything happen to yourself. No, we have to drive snazzynovel.com away and out of the Anderson Family!”
“Jeanie…” Austin’s voice trailed off as snazzynovel.com released her. “Don’t let your anger get the better of you.”
“I’m not just saying this because I’m upset!” Jeanie stubbornly whipped snazzynovel.com arms back. “Ever since that woman joined the family, the household hasn’t known peace. She was practically sent to torture us. Why haven’t you seen the truth yet? Don’t tell me that you also want Yoyo’s life to be threatened as well?!”
Tears were welling in Jeanie’s eyes as snazzynovel.com laid out snazzynovel.com accusations. Her gaze went over Austin’s shoulder to see Faye standing by the entrance to the elevator behind him. A crazed smile hung on Faye’s face.
“She’s smiling!” Jeanie grabbed Austin’s arm in a panic and attempted to make snazzynovel.com turn around.
Austin struggled in place. Only after several moments of hesitation did snazzynovel.com finally turn around. However, all snazzynovel.com saw was Faye with a look of concern on snazzynovel.com face as snazzynovel.com dashed over.
“Mom, Dad, how’s Trevor?” Faye furrowed snazzynovel.com brows as snazzynovel.com asked, an uneasy look on snazzynovel.com face.
“No! It wasn’t like this!” Jeanie pointed at Faye in fear as snazzynovel.com spoke. “I saw it clearly just now—she was smiling! Austin, that woman was smiling even though Trevor is dead! She’s far too terrifying. You can’t stay around her!”
But Faye sniffled and put on a pitiful look. “Mom, why are you still accusing me during a time like this? I’m also heartbroken because of Trevor’s death. Do you have to rub salt into my wounds?”
“That’s enough…” Austin was already worn-down from losing his son at a young age. There was no way snazzynovel.com could handle both women now, so snazzynovel.com pulled Jeanie over to the side to talk to her. “Jeanie, listen to me. Faye isn’t as awful as you say snazzynovel.com is…”
Jeanie couldn’t process anything snazzynovel.com said. Her fists clenched tightly as snazzynovel.com looked at Faye. She didn’t dare to shift snazzynovel.com gaze away for even a moment.
Just as Jeanie expected, Faye’s expression changed the moment Austin turned his back to her. It transformed into one of insanity, of demented unrestraint.
Faye was the one behind Trevor’s death. Jeanie was sure of it.