Chapter 180

After countless hours of darkness, Alex's eyes finally fluttered open.

A dull ache pulsed through his entire body.

"Alex, you're awake?"

The relief in Kelly's voice practically echoed off the sterile Hospital walls.

Her eyes were brimming with unshed tears, and before he knew what was happening, she latched onto him in a fierce hug.

"You had me scared half to death," she whispered, voice trembling. "Don't ever pull something like that again."

Alex gave a weak chuckle, trying to shift into a more comfortable position.

"I'm fine, Kelly. Quit looking at me like I'm about to keel over any second. Where... where am I?"

Before Kelly could respond, the door swung open with a loud click.

Jasmine glided in, followed by Lyra, each looking polished and stunning in their own right.

"Alex!" Jasmine exclaimed, her tone tinged with urgency. She rushed to his bedside. "Thank God you're alright. We were worried."

Alex offered her a faint smile. "Little banged up, but I'll live."

Jasmine's gaze flickered to Kelly, who was still clinging to Alex like a lifeline.

"Ahem,"

Jasmine began, not even attempting to hide the edge in her voice. "Kelly, don't you think you've squeezed the life out of him enough? He's injured, not a teddy bear."

"Exactly," Lyra chimed in, crossing her arms. "He needs rest. Preferably without someone suffocating him."

Their words immediately elevated the tension in the room-like striking a match near a powder keg.

Kelly whipped her head around, shooting daggers at Lyra. "You got a problem with the way I take care of him?"

"Take care of him? Honey, you're practically crushing him," Lyra retorted, arching a perfectly shaped brow.

A hostile silence stretched thin and taut between the three women.

Jealous sparks ignited in the air, crackling with a challenge that Alex could practically feel rippling across his skin.

Then, in the worst possible timing, the door opened again revealing the hospital doctor.

He took one look at the trio glaring at each other over Alex's wounded body and faltered, clearing his throat. "Um, ladies, if I could just-"

and Lyra snapped in perfect

man

the room with a sigh that could

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snorted. "Well,

their bickering, focusing again

this. It's a top-secret medicine I tracked down just for you.

shot up at her serious tone. "Secret medicine,

scoff," Jasmine warned, her

a five-hundred-year-old sage. According to Lyra, she basically has to sell her soul to get this pill. I went through hell-money,

glanced at Lyra, who

was his own creation-one he had entrusted to Lyra long ago

was sudd nly the product of

to remain blank, hoping he wouldn't burst out laughing. Jasmine's eyes narrowed when

"What? You know something?"

moment to clear her throat-loudly. "Miss Kingston, I just remembered I have...some urgent business. You know, top-secret stuff. Alex is

Lyra was gone, leaving

her, confusion etched into

shook

take it. I'm

tried to wave her off. "Honestly, I'm already feeling better. No need to waste your

thinned. "Don't make me repeat

ending the argument. Alex sighed. She meant well, so

Sophia Lancaster downstairs in the ER. It looked serious. Her grandfather was brought in, and I heard

grim. "Sophia?

shrugged. "She was a wreck, so yes, I'm pretty

legs off the

him. Abraham Lancaster always treated me

le he's

opened her mouth to argue, but she recognized the steely look in his

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another wing of the hospital,

Lancaster paced frantically by her grandfather's bedside, her

motionless, his usually robust face ghostly pale. Family members hovered around, restless and frightened, with hushed

could this happen?" one cousin murmured. "He was

inside," another relative

flickering in her eyes.

"Then find someone who

care if we have to fly in every

broke through the tension. "I might have

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