Dark Revenge Of An Unwanted Wife: The Twins Are Not Yours!

Chapter 433: Third News

Athena woke to insistent knocks on her door. Groaning weakly, she let her eyes flutter open, gaze perching on the white ceiling, and then on the door as she cocked her head to the left.

Who was knocking? she wondered as the knock came again, twice in three succession. Whoever it was must have an emergency, she concluded, her mind straining to push away the sleepy clogs swamping it.

Exhaling softly, she stretched like a cat, rolled her shoulders, and stood on her feet. Her eyes found the time on the wall clock—just past six. A furrow marred her brows. An emergency, surely.

And when her mind wheels backtracked to the episodes of yesterday, to the episodes of last night, her heart immediately sank to her stomach, her mind going off in different directions, different projections of bad news.

She reached for the robe by the bed with hurried hands. Has Kael’s second gift arrived? Her steps quickened as she moved to the door, pulling it open to see Ewan standing right at the post.

"What’s going on?" she asked immediately, noting his countenance, not bothering with greetings. Seeing the eye bags underneath his eyes, she wondered if he had slept at all.

"Some female is here. She said she is one of the doctors at the hospital? She looks scared..."

Athena darted out of the room, shutting the door after her. Her feet were light on the air, her robe brushing her ankles as she all but flew to the sitting room where Ewan had said the latter was waiting.

She was sure—no matter how much she wanted it not to be so—that it was the second gift promised by Kael.

"Doctor Athena, good morning..." The doctor, who had been sitting on the single sofa, stood to her feet, her eyes flicking here and there, panicky, scared.

"Stella, what is going on?" Athena cut straight to the point, aware of the emptiness in the room, of the fact that only Ewan was present. It meant that the others were still sleeping, that Ewan hadn’t slept at all after their last check-in with Spider.

thoughts of him off her head, anxiety

came in an hour ago. The doctors on duty had alerted me, alerted you too, but it

her phone during the meetings, or rather after Antonio had

answer his calls, and so had

about the patients?" she finally asked, opening her eyes and meeting Stella’s scared ones. Already she knew it

we thought that the medicine would cure it, or at least

one finger, discontinuing

of the chief doctors, swallowed hard. "Violent, like mad. It’s like the medicine aggravated whatever is the causative agent. We have not seen this type... Some of the nurses and the guards, who had aided in putting away the patients—about ten of them—have been quarantined too, as

hands, tears of frustration and anger burning behind her eyes. "Okay. Okay." She muttered, glancing around the room

released her hands—which were beginning to sweat—and wiped them on her thighs, only to clasp them again. She bit her lip when a blinding headache started at

will meet you

better of it. She gave a nod to Ewan and then started out of the

the servants around?" Athena muttered absently, really unaware of

the sitting room." As he

"Breathe in, Athena."

as if operated by a

"And out."

the tears stung her eyelids. Any moment now... A

"This is cruel, Ewan."