Chapter 722

Chapter 722

I instinctively hid the bag behind my back, which only made the two men chuckle as they stepped into the elevator.

When the doors closed, I turned toward Demi's room. But after a few steps, unease hit me like a punch in the gut. Something was off.

I spun around, staring at the elevator doors. My heart was pounding before I even realized I was running.

"Demi!" I yelled, shoving her door open.

She blinked at me, startled. "What's wrong?"

Nothing had happened-at least not to me. But the fear that something might've happened to her had me panicked.

Seeing her sitting there, fine, I exhaled sharply and stepped inside. As I went to set the food on her bedside table, my eyes caught something-a fat stack of cash. Hush money.

My stomach churned as it clicked. Those two men had been here to make sure Demi stayed quiet.

help me put this money away?" Demi's voice was

at the bills. "Why

them think I'll keep my mouth shut. It's the only way I'll get another chance

resigned. It broke something in me. "Demi, we don't have

her voice flat. "There's no way out. I have to take revenge-for

how could

Those people had broken her, and she had every

on the table: Demi hadn't wanted risotto or pork belly-she just

and headed to Hayden's

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looking for something from him wouldn't get much out of coma patient. When I walked in, two doctors were hovering over him. My heart jumped,

him get hurt, but nothing prepared me for how bad it actually was. My

broke through, stopping the doctors

aside as his eyes flicked to

rounding the bed. He grabbed my hand, pulling me down to sit beside him. "Don't look," he murmured, his voice firm

much pain, he didn't

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