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!"

called for emergency evacuation while

utmost care.

sound of helicopter blades reverberated overhead as a sleek chopper descended through the smoke and chaos. Its side door slid open and a team 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 stabilize their unconscious patient as Helena watched on with her heart in her throat. She clutched Emma's limp hand like a

helipad of the Hospital. Emma was immediately rushed inside, Helena hurrying anxiously alongside

a private treatment room, Helena pulled out her phone and dialed

been an emergency - an attack in broad

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with barely restrained emotion. When she reached the part about Emma's still undetermined condition, his anguished voice cut her off abruptly. "I'm coming there right now. Don't let

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

distress.

long strides, stroking back her hair urgently." Sweetheart, can you

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

What's going on...?" She

searing embrace, burying his face in the

desperate kisses over her face and hair. "When they told me...I thought

her arms around his trembling form, bemused but soothed by the enveloping warmth of his

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

rushed in, his practiced mask of stoicism nowhere in evidence "Where are they? Helena? Emma? Are you

into her eyes for reassurance that she was indeed whole. Only when she

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

finally lifted his head from Emma's shoulder to gaze beseechingly at the gaggle of staff who'd averted their eyes during the

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

response didn't quite cut it for him. "And what

- just as the

"I have the test results right here. Aside from some bumps