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.

Lidia urged, snapping the lid open and lifting the

same elixir Alex had slipped Bella-her treasured keepsake, a vow of

trinket from that punk? You really think this'll pull

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

buy it," he

Bella's wish-don't spit on

existed, Jericho would never wager his daughter's life

every white-coated expert had already thrown up their

was still tearing down the highway, and time bled

to scrape the

he muttered, the question

think Alex would lace a toxin for Bella right

sagged into brooding

sins, but poisoning an

at Bella's frost-pale skin and felt

nod he growled, "Fine. We

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