The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

Chapter 146

Arabella lay motionless on the hospital bed with her eyes wide open. The steady stream of tears from her eyes told a tale of sheer terror.

Thankfully, Vivienne was masked at the moment because if Arabella let Vivienne see the fear reflected in her own eyes, she might have wished for death right there.

Vivienne squinted slightly at Brody, silently questioning his intentions.

“Two miniature bombs have been forcefully lodged into her body, one on either side of her abdomen.”

Upon seeing Vivienne’s eyes harden, a smug smile appeared on Brody’s face. “Relax. At most, she’d be the only one to blow up; we’d be safe. I value my life, after all.”

Vivienne’s eyes turned frostier.

This damn psychopath!

“We compete on who performs the surgery faster and more precisely. Whoever can extract the bomb first with an endoscope wins. By the way, I’ve set the bombs to detonate in one minute. Be careful; a slight mishap could trigger an early explosion.”

“Right here?” Vivienne surveyed the hall with a furrowed brow.

“Don’t worry, a sterilized operating room and sanitized equipment have all been prepared.” Brody responded while gesturing for Vivienne to proceed.

Upon Brody’s signal, the chubby man grasped Arabella’s bed and wheeled her into an operating room.

Two endoscope apparatuses were ready in the operating room.

This was a mental institution. They wouldn’t normally have such surgical equipment. This was clearly Brody’s doing.

patients to secure Arabella to the operating table. He gave

he exited the room under Arabella’s hateful

Vivienne and Brody, now fully sterilized,

on the operating table, and spoke in a soft tone, “Although the drug I gave

eyes widened in fear. Yet she couldn’t move her

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she could do was cry

just said. She had no sympathy for Arabella, who had brought

in the hospital. Recalling his torment in the detention center and the twenty-three needles

had no intention of

Vivienne said

Vivienne, and gently pressed it. “The bombs

to Arabella’s left side, uncovered her abdomen, and quickly

A simple endoscopic surgery was not a challenge for them. The real challenge was extracting the bombs without triggering them or causing

as the two endoscopes entered Arabella’s abdomen, her face turned

her abdomen and the objects inserted into her. The pain was unbearable, she

all her instincts were screaming for her not to faint since she

N&S Psychiatric Hospital, she had witnessed the depths of Brody’s

rule the patients in the hospital. Everyone followed his orders, and he had access

said there were bombs

and Brody

didn’t care about Arabella’s thoughts

didn’t intentionally enlarge the incisions or

in less than thirty seconds, she successfully extracted the bomb

again.” Vivienne said to Brody while holding the bomb. I’ve already won

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there’s

Brody grabbed the scalpel and made a rough incision in Arabella’s abdomen, then quickly extracted the bomb