Chapter 169 You’re Not Fit to Be His Mother
The moment he said that, the fire inside the kitchen grew even more violent. Without a second thought, Courtney dashed right in and did not give the people around her a chance to pull her back.
“Miss Hunter!”
Bracing the thick smoke inside, Courtney yelled, “Tina!”
The kitchen was a big mess with pots and pans scattered all over the ground. It looked like the fire first broke out in the storage room and had instantly spread to the food preparation area between the two rows of stoves. All the smoke in the room was making Courtney cough uncontrollably.
Across from the fire, she spotted a pink figure lying in the corner and ran toward it in a heartbeat. Taking off her outer coat, she wrapped Tina in it tightly and carried her out right away.
As the blaze erupted even further, it seemed like it was going to swallow them in its flames. Courtney could only feel her face going numb from the scorching heat.
When she finally stepped out of the kitchen, she felt like she had just escaped death by a whisker.
The voices of people talking all at once outside did not register in her mind.
“They’re out.”
“Miss Hunter, the ambulance is here.”
With Tina in her arms, she was too occupied to respond to anyone else and simply followed in the direction one of the attendants was pointing toward the ambulance. As she walked past the crowd, she saw a familiar figure from the corner of her eye. The person was filled with terror and was cowering in fear—it was unlike the demeanor she was familiar with.
Pressed for time, she did not ponder on it and quickly rushed Tina to the hospital.
After waiting anxiously for some time, the head doctor came out of the emergency room and reassured, “Tina didn’t suffer any serious injuries, but she has inhaled a lot of smoke. We will have to observe her at the hospital for a few days.”
Finally, Courtney was able to let out a sigh of relief. “Thank you, doctor.”
in and see her.
“Okay.”
the doctor left, Courtney pulled aside the curtain divider and saw Tina’s small body under the white covers with only her ash-covered face poking out. She looked like a kitten
“Mommy…”
eyes cleared up when she saw Courtney, but her voice was still hoarse,
have to rest for a bit. You don’t have to speak if it’s too
sat on the side of the bed and
for a moment then asked through a scratchy
said Jordan went off to the bathroom. I didn’t have time to inform him
It seemed like she was trying to say something, but she
of a panic as she
“Jordan… Jordan is in the kitchen. The
was?” A moment of horror sank in. “In the
began to well up in her eyes as she
Two hours had passed since she saved Tina from the fire. She did not dare fathom the state Jordan was
The firefighters were already tidying up the scene while a crowd of guests and hotel
by her frantic appearance. After taking some time to come back
face. Her disorderly appearance garnered the attention of people around them. In their eyes, she looked like a madwoman pressing Addie for
in the cold storage of the kitchen. He’s only at the hospital for an examination. I… I tried calling you, but you
Vivian?
face in the crowd while
state that Jordan was in when he came out of the kitchen. “Aside from his hands and feet being cold, he was completely okay. They brought him to the hospital just in case he develops a
her chest, her legs gave out, and she crumbled to the ground—she relied on
collected herself, she heard a brief recount of how they
had discovered the fire in time and none
backlash they would face as a consequence of this safety
gone to make a report at
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