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.

used the straps typically used to restrain patients to secure Arabella to the operating table. He gave her a kind smile. “Darling, you need to be good. Listen

saying that, he exited the room under Arabella’s

he left, Vivienne and Brody, now fully sterilized,

eyes, hidden behind his glasses, brimmed with malicious intent. He looked at Arabella, who was lying on the operating table, and spoke in a soft tone, “Although the drug I gave you has rendered you immobile, you can still feel pain. So, we’ll try to

widened in fear. Yet she

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beg. All she could do was cry

had just said. She had no sympathy for

center and the twenty-three needles extracted from his body, Vivienne felt Arabella’s current suffering was far from

no intention of

begin.” Vivienne said

out a switch, smiled at Vivienne, and gently pressed it. “The bombs are

left side, uncovered her abdomen, and quickly started the

simple endoscopic surgery was not a challenge for them. The

entered Arabella’s abdomen, her face turned deathly pale. from

two small incisions made in her abdomen and the objects inserted into her. The pain was unbearable, she wished she could

for her not to faint since she

the N&S Psychiatric Hospital, she had

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

there were bombs inside

Brody might accidentally

about Arabella’s thoughts or

doctor, she didn’t intentionally enlarge the incisions or harm Arabella’s

side accurately on the screen, and in less than thirty seconds, she

lost again.” Vivienne said to Brody while holding the

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don’t think there’s a need for

incision in Arabella’s abdomen, then quickly extracted the bomb he had spotted