The Billionaire's Mistake

MISTAKE 163

Chapter 163: Risking it all.

The call ended, and Gina rose to her feet feeling steadier than she had in weeks. Her lover - her partner in this grand endeavor had experience handling these sorts of delicate situations. She needed to have faith that his meticulous planning would ensure they emerged

victorious with Martin's estate and assets finally within their grasp.

Allowing one last glance towards Martin's comatose form, Gina felt her lips curl into a small, vindicated smile. Her husband's progress towards awakening was an obstacle, to be sure. But her lover would find a way to transform it into a conveniently timed solution instead. After all, a dead man couldn't lay claim to anything in the end. Not when there were professionals ensuring he never regained consciousness to begin with.

With a slight toss of her hair, Gina strode from the hospital room. She had avoided law enforcement's suspicions for now....and soon her problems would be permanently put to rest alongside her traitorous husband, clearing her path to lucrative freedom forever. The moment Gina's footsteps faded away down the corridor, Martin Jones's eyes flashed open. He drew a slow, deep breath - the first voluntary inhalation he'd taken in weeks. During his time trapped in the endless void of his coma, he had been aware of everything going on around him. He could hear the hushed voices of nurses and doctors tending to his body, the steady rhythm of the machines monitoring his vital signs. Yet no matter how he struggled, he found himself utterly unable to move or speak or open his eyes to reconnect with the waking

world.

Until today. Gina's frantic, muffled words as she had paced beside his bedside had filtered. through his state of suspended consciousness with chilling clarity. She was planning to have

him killed to get her hands on his estate and from the sound of her phone conversation, she?

already had an accomplice lined up to handle the grisly task.

lent him the strength to finally force his eyes open once Gina had fled the room. Each individual muscle felt like lead after so much disuse, but

a second. Laboriously, he reached out with a trembling hand and mashed the call button beside his bed, silently

of shoes against tile approaching at a rapid clip. Two nurses hurried into view,

Jones! You're awake!" the younger of the two exclaimed as they rushed to his bedside, hands already moving in a flurry of activity to

once more. If Gina caught wind of his emergence from the coma, she could make another attempt on his life before

he croaked out, his voice little more than a harsh rasp after so many weeks of disuse. The nurse paused

him strength.

bewildered glance before the elder nurse leaned in closer. "Mr.

heard her...on the phone just now. Planning to have me killed before 1 can expose what

seemed to shake herself from her stupor and straightened up. "Bridget, call security and have them send someone to watch over Mr. Jones's room immediately,

right away so he can make an official

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argument.

remaining nurse turned back towards

Mr. Jones. We're going to make sure you're protected until the authorities can get to the bottom of this. Whatever your wife may have done, she won't be able to make another attempt on your life while you're under our care." Martin felt his eyes burn with unshed tears of relief, all the terror and pent-up anguish of his entrapment finally overwhelming him. "Thank you," he rasped out hoarsely. "You don't know how long I've been waiting to finally break free of this nightmare... True to her word, it wasn't long before a pair of stern-faced police

Jones, I'm Detective Carr, and this is my partner, Detective Ruiz," the taller of the two officers introduced them crisply. "Please go ahead

can recall about the events that led up to

every