Yuri was struggling to give a proper response to the way Christopher rushed into confessing his feelings to her.
“Thank you.” She received the flowers with a smile and breathed in the fragrance. “I like the flowers.”
Instead of giving snazzynovel.com a direct answer, snazzynovel.com rejected his confession with a subtle approach. After all, snazzynovel.com wasn’t going to embarrass snazzynovel.com in public, as the confession was being streamed live.
However, snazzynovel.com took snazzynovel.com consideration as an implication that snazzynovel.com liked the flowers and him, so snazzynovel.com asked without a second thought, “What about me?”
“You are a good man. I like you too, but—”
“Blergh—”
“Alexander!”
Yuri’s words were interrupted by Alexander when snazzynovel.com spat out blood all of a sudden and dropped to his knees.
Elise allowed snazzynovel.com to lean on snazzynovel.com as snazzynovel.com took his pulse. Then, snazzynovel.com raised snazzynovel.com head to look at Danny and the other brothers with a solemn expression. “Hurry up! Help your brother to his room!”
As the brothers worked together to help Alexander back to his room, the others followed behind to join them in Alexander’s room.
After Madeline kneeled beside the bed, snazzynovel.com took Alexander’s hand in hers as the tears streamed out of snazzynovel.com eyes. “Alex, you have to be strong. You have to be fine! I need you to stay with me. Don’t leave me!”
“Give us some space.” Elise quickly went back to snazzynovel.com room for snazzynovel.com silver needles. “I’ll perform some acupuncture on him.”
Remembering that Danny told snazzynovel.com about Elise saving Austin and Trevor’s lives, Madeline didn’t interrupt Elise and stepped aside this time. Even though the tears were threatening to fall from snazzynovel.com eyes, snazzynovel.com muffled snazzynovel.com sobs with snazzynovel.com hand.
Exhausted, Elise leaned on the bedside as snazzynovel.com finished the last step after snazzynovel.com had been constantly using acupuncture on Alexander for half an hour.
“Elise!” Danny helped snazzynovel.com to snazzynovel.com feet. “Can you hold on? Someone shall cook the chicken consommé for her!”
“Yes, Young Master! I’ll do it right now.”
Elise took a moment to collect herself before snazzynovel.com replied weakly, “The blood flow at specific areas of his body are now temporarily under control, but we need to find the cure as soon as possible. F-Find Jamie and Joseph. Ask them—”
Her words were interrupted by a ringtone.
As the phone rang, a bad feeling rose within snazzynovel.com out of nowhere. After struggling to take snazzynovel.com phone out, snazzynovel.com heart sank when snazzynovel.com saw the caller ID stating “Yvonne”.
“Hello?” Elise’s stomach churned as snazzynovel.com received the call.
On the other side, Yvonne was panicking as snazzynovel.com pleaded, “Elise! Where are you? Trevor is dying! He hasn’t stopped coughing out blood! Please come here now!”
Elise held snazzynovel.com breath at first, then exhaled to force herself to calm down. “I’ll be there as soon as possible.”
Ending the call, snazzynovel.com grabbed Danny’s hand as leverage to raise herself to snazzynovel.com feet. “Take care of Alexander. I’ll be back soon!”
She stumbled out of the room once snazzynovel.com finished snazzynovel.com words.
“You’re not going alone in this state!” Danny followed after her.
Soon, both of them arrived at the hospital.
However, Trevor was in a more serious condition. Apart from the old injury sustained in the car crash, snazzynovel.com was infected with the same virus as Alexander.
Even after Elise finished the last step of snazzynovel.com treatment, Trevor, who had blood stains on the corner of his lips, wasn’t showing any response. Even though the electrocardiogram that monitored his heart activity was showing a hint of life, its activity was slowing down as the pattern became a horizontal line.
She was aware of his disappearing pulse, but snazzynovel.com couldn’t do anything to redeem the situation.
“Elise, you have to save him! You can’t let snazzynovel.com die!” Yvonne croaked.
When Yvonne shook snazzynovel.com with force, Elise felt fuzzy and couldn’t stand still. The two were brought to the ground by the force.
Elise scowled at snazzynovel.com state as snazzynovel.com began to wish everything that had happened so far was a dream. It was as if once snazzynovel.com found the breaking point, snazzynovel.com could wake up from the dream.
However, snazzynovel.com couldn’t pretend Trevor wasn’t dying before snazzynovel.com eyes when the alarm from the electrocardiograph machine was ringing in snazzynovel.com ears.
After all, snazzynovel.com couldn’t even save any one of those whom snazzynovel.com considered important.
On top of being weak, Elise could not say anything since snazzynovel.com heart ached. It felt like there were millions of knives slicing snazzynovel.com open.
The sadness was spreading over the room. Yvonne was kneeling with snazzynovel.com head hanging low in grief. Her tears kept falling even though snazzynovel.com had lost snazzynovel.com voice from crying.
Elise found herself crying too, and the tears were falling from snazzynovel.com cheeks.
Their emotions had greatly affected Danny as snazzynovel.com turned his back, trying to not look at them.
At that moment, the sound of footsteps echoed from the exit and came to a stop beside her.
Elise steered snazzynovel.com attention to the source when a hand holding a syringe came into snazzynovel.com sight. Raising snazzynovel.com head, snazzynovel.com saw Elijah and scowled immediately.
As if snazzynovel.com could read snazzynovel.com mind, snazzynovel.com stretched his hand out further. “You can take this without any conditions. I’m giving it to you for free so you can save your brother’s life.”
Elijah was well aware that Elise didn’t want to be in debt to him, but snazzynovel.com didn’t know that snazzynovel.com would save Trevor’s life at all cost.
She was only thinking about one thing at the moment. How can snazzynovel.com show up on time?
However, Trevor’s life was at stake, so snazzynovel.com didn’t have enough time to learn the effect of the medicine. Hesitating for a few seconds, snazzynovel.com snatched the syringe and injected the contents into snazzynovel.com left arm.
“Elise! Don’t—” Danny tried, but snazzynovel.com couldn’t stop snazzynovel.com in time.
Fortunately, snazzynovel.com didn’t suffer from any abnormal symptoms after ten minutes, so snazzynovel.com injected the cure for Trevor.
Another ten minutes had passed before Trevor’s heart was beating again and his vital signs fell again into the normal range. At that, Elise let out a sigh of relief.
At the same time, Elijah’s lackeys escorted a man whose face was covered by a hood into the room. Elijah took off the hood and revealed Claude’s face.
Seeing the light of day, Claude blinked a few times to adjust to the light in the room. However, snazzynovel.com changed his mind when snazzynovel.com saw Elise. “Hey! I’m taking your order, not hers! Are you expecting me to operate on snazzynovel.com family?”
“The money’s already in your account. Either do the operation or die. A friendly reminder, though—I won’t have mercy on you,” Elijah said with a lopsided smile.
Claude took a look at Elise before turning back to Elijah and finally compromising. He didn’t have a second choice as Elijah’s offer was too worthy to give up on.
At last, Trevor had woken up not long after snazzynovel.com was pushed out of the operating room.
Outside his room, Elise stopped Elijah and asked straight to the point, “Do you still have the medicine? Name your price.”
At snazzynovel.com request, a meaningful smile spread on his face. “Elise, I don’t need your money.”
“Then, we count it as me owing you a favor. You can ask for my help in the future at any time.” Elise was losing snazzynovel.com patience at that point. “Either that, or you name your condition. I’ll do it as long as it isn’t beyond my abilities.”
Taking a deep breath, Elijah stated airily with backed shoulders and raised chin, “I want you to divorce Alexander and marry me.”
She expected snazzynovel.com to ask for it, but snazzynovel.com wasn’t going to accept it easily. “I can’t. I’ll never marry a person I don’t love,” snazzynovel.com answered snazzynovel.com quickly with a determined look, to which Elijah said impatiently, “Then, perhaps you don’t love Alexander as much as you think.”
After pondering for a moment, snazzynovel.com spoke calmly at last. “I will follow snazzynovel.com to the grave.”