Chapter 248

Lidia's voice shook as she clutched Jericho's sleeve.

"What are we going to do now? Tell me Bella's going to pull through, right?"

Jericho leaned in, whispering through clenched teeth, "I don't know," his mind racing for any miracle he still hadn't tried.

His reservoir of inner inner energy was thinning to a dangerous trickle.

Once that final spark died, Bella's heartbeat would follow it into the darkness.

Lidia's gaze darted to the nightstand, where a crimson velvet box tested beside a handwritten note.

The message, penned in Bella's looping script, read, “It I'm ever in danger, use this pill."

She had even doodled a tiny red heart beside the words, her faith sealed in ink and emoji.

to try this," Lidia urged, snapping the lid open and

the same elixir Alex had slipped Bella-her treasured keepsake,

really think this'll pull her

out of moves, Jericho," Lidia shot back, eyes blazing. "Unless you've got

buy

spit on it,"

would never wager his

room reeked of desperation, and every white-coated expert had already

the highway, and time bled away too

to

poison?" he muttered, the

Alex would lace

sagged into

of sins, but poisoning an innocent was never

glanced at Bella's frost-pale skin and felt his jaw lock in grim

curt nod he growled, "Fine. We

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