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.

following Brody’s instructions, used the straps typically used to restrain patients to secure Arabella to the operating table. He

saying that, he exited the room under

and Brody, now fully

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 be gentle during the procedure

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

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beg. All she could do

to what Brody had just said. She had no sympathy for

bedridden in the hospital. Recalling his torment in the detention center and the twenty-three needles extracted from his body, Vivienne

she had no intention of

begin.” Vivienne

at Vivienne, and gently

left side, uncovered her abdomen, and quickly started the operation with the surgical

Brody were geniuses in the medical field. A simple endoscopic surgery was not a challenge for them. The real challenge was extracting

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

abdomen and the objects inserted into

all her instincts were screaming for her not to faint

since she entered the N&S Psychiatric Hospital, she had witnessed the depths of

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

were bombs inside her,

she was afraid that if she did, Vivienne and Brody might accidentally trigger the

Arabella’s thoughts or

intentionally enlarge the incisions

the screen, and in less than thirty seconds, she successfully extracted the bomb before Brody did

while holding the bomb.

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think there’s

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