After I Amazed the World the Cold Alpha Regretted

Chapter 206

Before Daria could respond, a terrifying voice cut through the air.

"Try saying that again," Narik growled, his eyes burning with fury.

He marched toward Cecily, his hands clamped tightly around her throat.

"Do you believe I won't kill you if you say one more word? I'll do it right now, you spiteful, mean old woman."

Cecily gasped, her face turning ashen as she struggled to breathe,

k's gaze was filled with rage, his words laced with venom.

"Why should Elizabeth risk her life to give him a child when Leo is nowhere to be found?"

Narik growled. "I know what you're trying to do. You want her dead to make way for Derick to take over Silvermoon. But as long as Leo and I are aime, there's no way in hell you're going to get away with it." Cecily's breath was shallow, her chest rising and falling in frantic gasps, her face a patchwork of red and purple as her lungs bezzed for air.

She clawed at Narik's arm with what little strength she had left, her fingers slipping uselessly against his iron grip.

Desperation filled her eyes, but Narik's resolve never faltered.

His expression was a mixture of anguish and cold determination, each breath he took ragged and painful.

hurried over, pleading with him to let go, his voice came out hoarse, barely a whisper, yet filled with unmistakable

Elizabeth," he rasped, his eyes burning with a fierce intensity. "If you don't, one day Leo

between her duty and the underlying threat in Narik's words, her face pale as

Elizabeth POV:

cold, sterile light above me blurred as I lay on the snowy white sheets, my

waves, every muscle in

from biting down, couldn't stop the small, broken sounds of agony

I were fading in and out of a nightmare I couldn't wake from. "Elizabeth, stay with us," the doctor's voice echoed

into my bones, flooding my

wasn't

labor hemorrhage draining not just

face masked but his

he urged, his words sharp yet somehow

breaths were shallow, my vision

push, but my limbs felt heavy, like lead, and the energy

could hear the beeping of machines, the quick, clipped instructions from the medical staff,

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strength, it

The pressure was unbearable.

like I was watching the life force drain out of me,

could feel my pulse weaken, the cold creeping into