Chapter 424

He was speaking when, all of a sudden, he coughed violently and spat out a mouthful of blood.

A moment later, the man could hold himself up no longer. His tall frame collapsed,

knees slamming hard against the unforgiving deck.

He coughed again, more blood spilling from his lips.

Briony hadn't hesitated-her aim had been both ruthless and precise.

It must have hit his spleen.

Bianca heard the commotion and came running. When she saw Stewart kneeling on the deck, a knife still lodged in his side and blood on his lips, she gasped in horror and called frantically for the doctor.

Their private physician rushed over.

Stewart, clinging to consciousness by a thread, managed to command, "Turn the boat around. Now. And... get my wife back to her cabin-"

With those words, his eyes fluttered shut. He passed out cold.

"Sir!"

Briony watched as Stewart was carried away toward the cabins.

Conditions on the yacht were far from ideal. The doctor could do little more than stop the bleeding.

Bianca pressed him for answers.

"It looks like his spleen's been injured," the doctor admitted, his voice strained. "I can't risk removing the knife out here. We need to get him to a hospital as soon as possible."

soon as Bianca heard this, she hurried back out

the wind was howling, and fat

Briony's arm. "Ma'am, he's unconscious. Please, you need to come inside! The waves are getting worse out

to let go

went back inside, Stewart would wake up and

the doctor says he's lost consciousness from a spleen injury. The captain's

her voice over the storm,

say on this yacht than anyone else.

Briony blinked, startled.

was growing

her face like

her mind, she saw

was as if she woke from a nightmare. "I can't...

hittle Nina's still waiting

at home!"

up and spilled from Briony's eyes. Relieved, Bianca

wouldn't return to that same

Bianca brought her to

me

hot shower and

Bianca suggested gently.

Her wedding gown was drenched, streaked with blood, an utter

just like her

blood

the bathroom, Bianca helped Briony out of the heavy, sopping gown

it out.

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