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.

chubby man, following Brody’s instructions, used the straps typically used to restrain patients to secure Arabella to the operating table. He gave her a kind

that, he exited the room under

left, Vivienne and Brody, now

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

in fear. Yet she couldn’t move her

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she could

a glance, with no reaction to what Brody had just

center and the twenty-three needles

intention

begin.” Vivienne said

out a switch, smiled at Vivienne, and gently

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

as the two endoscopes entered Arabella’s abdomen,

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

to faint

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

Everyone followed his orders, and he had

bombs inside her, there must be

she was afraid that if she did, Vivienne and Brody might accidentally trigger the bombs, and she wouldn’t even

didn’t care about Arabella’s thoughts or

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

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

to Brody while holding the bomb.

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