Chapter 745:

He fought against their grip, teeth clenched, muscles straining. “Let me go!”

“Elissa!” Hadley dropped to her knees beside her friend, hands shaking as she lifted Elissa’s limp body. “Elissa, talk to me! Are you okay?”

“Hadley…”

Elissa’s voice was barely more than a breath. Her lips quivered as pain rippled through her battered frame. Swelling distorted her face, bruises blooming across her skin like cruel shadows. Her fingers clutched Hadley’s arm, weak yet desperate.

“It… hurts,” she gasped. “It hurts so much…”

“Elissa!” Hadley pulled her close, tears falling freely. Then, turning to the stunned onlookers, she called out, voice breaking with desperation, “Somebody call an ambulance! Please!”

“I’m calling now!”

already on the

the hospital, paramedics rushed Elissa through the emergency entrance, and Hadley never left

“Hadley.”

child’s vaccination and was heading home—until he

she in

have time to explain,” Hadley

home to unforgettable

questions, she turned and hurried

over to Quentin. “Locke, I need you to go home with Quentin, all right? Daddy has something to

to Quentin’s hand, waving his chubby

Locke. Be a

the ER. Hadley stood outside, hands clasped tightly over her chest,

“Hadley, how is she?”

Ernest’s voice. “Ernest?” She

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