The Billionaire's Mistake

MISTAKE 181

Chapter 181: Pregnant

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

utmost care.

smoke and chaos. Its side door slid

any of the remaining assailants could regroup.

to stabilize their unconscious patient as Helena watched on with her heart in her throat. She

the Hospital. Emma was

treatment room, Helena pulled out her phone and

the moment he answered. "There's been an emergency - an attack in broad daylight

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emotion. When she reached the part about Emma's still undetermined condition, his anguished voice cut her off abruptly.

fifteen minutes later. His usual cool poise and control was utterly shattered, his

distress.

at her bedside in two long strides, stroking

open at his voice. She blinked slowly, taking in Richard's panicked face with a furrow

on...?" She

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

raining desperate kisses over

enveloping warmth of his ironclad

though her own eyes were over-bright with unshed tears. "I think

and a harried Jonathan rushed in, his practiced mask of stoicism

Emma, clasping her shoulders and gazing deep into her eyes for reassurance that she was indeed whole. Only when she smiled bemusedly up at him did some of the tension bleed

want the full story," he stated in a tone that brokered no argument. "But first - have the doctors

gaze beseechingly at the gaggle of staff who'd averted their eyes

she's in no danger. We're

it for him. "And what of

for a split second, opening her mouth to reply - just as the door opened once more to admit a tall, graying

delay," he offered the room at large. "I have the test results right here.