The Almighty Dominance

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

had slipped Bella-her treasured keepsake, a vow

scowled. "A trinket from that punk? You really think this'll pull her back. from the

"Unless you've got a better miracle up your sleeve, we gamble

don't buy it,"

spit on it,"

never wager his

reeked of desperation, and every white-coated

down the highway, and

but to scrape the

he muttered, the

really think Alex would lace a toxin for Bella right under our

shoulders sagged into brooding

but poisoning an innocent

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

curt nod he growled, "Fine. We roll the