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.

into the operating room, the 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 smile. “Darling, you need to

he exited the room under

as he left, Vivienne and Brody, now fully sterilized,

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

Arabella’s eyes widened in fear. Yet she

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she could

spared Arabella a glance, with no reaction to what Brody had just said. She had no sympathy for Arabella, who had

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

intention of administering an

begin.” Vivienne said

pulled out a switch, smiled at Vivienne,

moved to Arabella’s left side, uncovered her abdomen, and quickly started the operation with the surgical

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

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

of the two small incisions made in her abdomen and the objects inserted into her.

to faint since she knew

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

followed his orders,

were bombs inside her, there

she did, Vivienne and Brody might accidentally trigger the bombs, and she wouldn’t even

care about Arabella’s thoughts

intentionally enlarge the incisions or harm Arabella’s organs with the endoscopic

and in less than thirty seconds, she successfully

while holding the

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I don’t think there’s

grabbed the scalpel and made a rough incision in Arabella’s abdomen,