Chapter 305 The Preemptive Attack

Chapter 305 The Preemptive Attack

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1 still didn't understand what the Boltons had done to Oliver or why Jeffrey had said those things.

Anna's loss was irreversible. There was no going back.

I walked over to the operating table. Anna lay there, mb.

Her face was ghostly pale, slick with cold sweat. She seemed to be hanging on by a thread.

The doctor explained she was resistant to anesthesia, meaning the procedure would have to be done without it.

The earlier efforts to save her had taken everything from her. She was already drowning in the sorrow of losing someone close, and now her child was gone, too

She stared at me as I approached, her eyes unfocused. Whether it was from the shock or delirium, she seemed to mistake me for Chloe.

Her voice cracked with fear. You're back. Is this your revenge?"

Then, in the next breath, she begged, "Please, give me Silas back. And my baby-don't take him. He's innocent. If you must, take my life instead."

I was about to ask her more when the doctor intervened "Ma'am, we need to start the D&C now. Please step outside."

"Okay, I whispered.

I turned and left.

been there before. I knew how cruel the procedure could

formed, but Anna's was. Her baby

clung to me. I went to the terrace, where the cold

of hot milk. "Ma'am, you should eat something. You need to take care

need a moment," I said, my

nodded. "Alright," she said, leaving

a box of food. He set it out carefully

he said

I can't. Not

death had hit me harder than I expected. We hadn't gotten anything useful from him, and

305 The Preemptive

death has been determined, Carter

looked up quickly.

toward me. "Eat,

"Gee, what a cliffhanger."

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done, I turned to Carter and said, "Alright, I've caten. Now, tell

speaking. "It wasn't poison someone gave him. He hid it in his teeth. All he had to do was bite down at the right moment,

in a movie once, but never imagined

from the start?

the operating room, where I could hear Anna's faint

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