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!"

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

utmost care.

descended through the smoke and chaos. Its side

up into the aircraft before any of the remaining assailants could regroup. Helena adamantly refused to

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

the Hospital. Emma was immediately rushed inside,

room, Helena pulled out her phone and dialed Richard's number with

gasped out the moment he answered. "There's been an emergency - an

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with barely restrained emotion. When she reached the part about Emma's still undetermined condition,

burst through the treatment room doors less than fifteen minutes later. His usual cool poise and control was

distress.

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

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

She murmured

in a searing embrace, burying his face in the crook of her neck. His powerful frame

he rasped out in a choked whisper, raining desperate kisses

arms around his trembling form, bemused but soothed by the enveloping warmth of his ironclad embrace. Over

over-bright with unshed tears. "I think the fearsome Richard Madison may

doorway and a harried Jonathan rushed in, his practiced mask of stoicism nowhere in evidence "Where are they? Helena? Emma?

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

stated in a tone that brokered no argument. "But first - have

at the gaggle of staff who'd averted their eyes during the family's emotional reunion. One particularly brave

but I can assure you she's in no danger. We're just waiting for the results from her panels and

quite cut it for him. "And

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

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