The Billionaire's Mistake

MISTAKE 181

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Helena shot him a withering look, even as her hands trembled against Emma's unnaturally pale cheeks. "She's fading fast - we must get her medical attention immediately!"

"Emma stay awake!" Helena shouted at the top of her lungs but Emma could barely register

the words she said.

Try as she might, Emma's eyes slid shut, the pull of blissful oblivion growing too strong to resist any longer.

Just before the darkness fully claimed her, she felt the whispers of air current against her face and the piercing oscillation of helicopter blades somewhere overhead. Then nothing but silence and enveloping black reigned.

Helena watched in mounting horror as Emma's eyes fluttered shut and her body went completely limp in her arms.

"Emma?" She shook her daughter-in-law urgently, panic gripping her chest. "Emma, stay with me!"

But Emma didn't respond, her head lolling back in a way that made Helena's heart lurch. Nearby, the guards were engaging in a ferocious gunfight with the mysterious attackers, but Helena blocked it all out. Her sole focus was on the deathly still young woman cradled against

her.

'Guards! Over here, now!" She screamed over the deafening din of the battle. "Emma needs medical attention immediately!"

Two of the nearest guards broke off, racing over with their weapons raised protectively. Their eyes went wide at the sight of Emma's unconscious form.

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"Is she hit? I don't see any blood..." one of them said in a harsh whisper.

Helena shook her head tersely. "I don't know, she simply lost consciousness. But we can't wait to find out - get her to the hospital right away before it's too late!"

needing to be told twice, the guards sprang into action. One called for emergency evacuation while the other carefully lifted Emma from Helena's arms, cradling her with

utmost care.

descended through the smoke and chaos. Its side door slid open and a team of experts rappelled

Emma onto a tray of some kind and whisked her up into the aircraft before any of the remaining assailants could regroup. Helena adamantly refused to be separated from her, leaving Jonathan to coordinate with the guards while she took

sky, the team worked swiftly to stabilize their unconscious patient as Helena watched on with her heart in her throat. She clutched Emma's limp hand like a lifeline, silently begging any deity that would listen to make

like an eternity before they were touching down on the helipad of the Hospital.

a private treatment room, Helena pulled out

been an emergency - an attack in broad

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she reached the part about Emma's still undetermined condition, his anguished voice cut her

through the treatment room doors less than fifteen minutes later. His

distress.

He was at her bedside in two long strides, stroking back her hair urgently." Sweetheart, can you

Helena's profound relief, Emma's eyes fluttered open at his voice. She

on...?" She murmured groggily.

swallowed up as Richard crushed her against his chest in a searing embrace, burying his face in the crook of her neck. His powerful frame shuddered with the force of

kisses over her face and hair. "When they told me...I thought I'd lost

around his trembling form, bemused but soothed by the enveloping

eyes were over-bright with unshed tears. "I

in, his practiced mask of stoicism nowhere in evidence "Where are they?

eyes for reassurance that she was indeed whole. Only when she smiled bemusedly up at him did some of the

no argument. "But first - have the doctors looked you over? You

of staff who'd averted their eyes during the family's emotional reunion. One particularly brave nurse stepped forward,

but I can assure you she's in no danger.

response didn't quite cut it for him. "And what of the reason for her

to reply - just as the

the room at large. "I have the test results right here. Aside