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.

urged, snapping the lid open

slipped Bella-her treasured keepsake, a vow of forever disguised as

You really think this'll pull her

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

don't buy it,"

Bella's wish-don't spit on

Jericho would never wager his

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

Joane was still tearing down the highway, and time bled away too

no choice but to scrape the bottom of

he muttered, the question half-strangling

hard. "Do you really think Alex would lace a toxin for Bella right under our

shoulders sagged into

poisoning an innocent was never on their

glanced at Bella's frost-pale skin and felt his

curt nod he growled, "Fine. We roll the

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