Chapter 170

“Hang in there, Elgin, the ambulance is on its way, any minute now…” Letitia muttered, “Do it for me, will you? Don’t doze off, hang tough…”

She was scared to death.

Elgin wanted to clean her tears, but he just didn’t have the strength. If he could even save his hand, that’d be a miracle…

Letitia held him, her head against his cheek, just wanting to hold on to him tightly.

“Why’d you have to go and play the fool… why? Shela tells you to hurt yourself and you just do it! And then your went and pulled out the knife. Weren’t you scared of bleeding out? Do you even care about your hand? Listen up, Elgin, if you end up disabled, don’t think I won’t hold it against you! You hear me?! You’ve gotta pull through, you just have to…”

Elgin mustered a weak smile, slowly closing his eyes again.

“Letty…” he spoke with great effort slowly, “Just keep on, keep living…”

With that, Elgin closed his eyes, his hand falling to his side.

“Elgin!” Letitia’s voice pierced the night.

The ambulance arrived with a wail.

The medics loaded Elgin onto the ambulance, and Letitia followed, “I’m his wife, I’m family! Let me come with

him!

Just as the doors closed, she saw Shela lying on the ground.

Samson had rushed over.

Letitia breathed a sigh of relief. Let Samson handle the scene and he’d sort it all out.

She thought about it and tears fell once again.

All this must have been arranged by Elgin before he came to her rescue.

He met with Shela alone, playing down her guard while secretly arranging for bodyguards, which was why so many of them stormed in at the last minute.

Inside, Elgin faced danger while Samson coordinated from outside.

They worked like a well-oiled machine.

so thorough, covering every

protected yourself, but for me…” She

was torture, but he also

stopped the bleeding, with blood-soaked cotton balls thrown into the trash. What a

doctors and nurses rushed Elgin straight to the operating

door slammed shut with

her legs and collapsed outside the

was gradually unfolding,

to be okay, your hand

She kept praying.

a nurse passing by helped Letitia up, then noticed the blood

mine, it’s… Letitia paused,

on her clothes was from

person bleed

the nurse observed.

when Letitia remembered the knife’s

face, it’s a scratch, no big

face. The nurse took her by the arm. “Girls freak out over a pimple, and here you are with a

“But I…”

patched

the ER while the doctor carefully dressed her wounds.

face… The doctor looked concerned.

doctor, I’ve got stuff

important than your face… wait, you need

was anxious, wanting to be by the surgery door to

the medical staff wouldn’t let her

Are you okay? What’s with all the

how’s

still going, don’t freak out.” Vidonia was visibly worried. “I came as soon as I heard. How could this

looked down, “It’s a long

“Your face…”

Letitia replied, “Elgin… his hand…” She choked up, breaking her voice.

“Everything’s gonna be okay

about her face at this point.

face when she pushed his hand away, “That’s

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