Can’t Win Me Back

The hospital corridor was eerily silent in the dead of the night.

The lone nurse on duty drowsed at the nurses' station, oblivious to the flashing red light from the malfunctioning surveillance camera down the hall.

A figure clad in a white doctor's robe and mask darted past the station, his movements purposeful.

He carefully scanned his surroundings before pushing open the door to Natalie's ward and slipping inside.

The patient lay curled up in bed, seemingly fast asleep.

The intruder crept closer, a glint of steel catching the dim light as he drew a dagger from his sleeve.

He raised the weapon high and stabbed the person on the bed.

All of a sudden, his vision went dark.

Unexpectedly, the person on the bed leaped up and threw the blanket over his head! Panic surged through the assassin.

He flailed wildly with the dagger, ripping the blanket free.

But before he could react further, the cold muzzle of a gun pressed against his forehead froze him in place.

"Don't move.

Not unless you want your head to be blown off." Under the dim light, Axel's eyes glinted with a dangerous glint.

A cynical smile played on his lips, sending shivers down the assassin's spine.

The ward door burst open, revealing Sean and Xavier leading a team of men who quickly surrounded the intruder.

"Are you alright, Mr.

Axel?" Sean inquired, his voice laced with concern.

Axel clicked his tongue.

"I didn't even attack him.

All it took was a blanket to take this fool down." With a practiced ease, Axel disarmed the assassin.

He sneered.

"Sir, you can barely fight, yet you're trying to be an assassin? Try harder next time.” The assassin's face was drained of color.

His knees buckled, and he crumpled to the floor in a heap.

growled, nudging the

hired you? Reveal his name, and

prison, you can walk

that you'll be able to walk out of this ward with all your

never met him in person!" the

"But...

have his number and our message history! He wired a million to my account two days ago and promised another after the job! We even spoke just

assassin

tossed it to Axel after finding

him to

to unlock this

"Thank you, Mr.

was escorted away, the silence returning to the ward as if the commotion had

sense of unease lingered in Axel's gut as an oppressive premonition weighed

making his heart skip a

his pupils constricting as he

a text from

words were a gut

much that his vision blurred, and

She wrote, "Goodbye, Axel.

I'm leaving Solana City.

to find

hear news about me or you manage to find out

typed and retyped a

Tell me." A

was no

He wasn't satisfied.

with unshed tears, Axel

as if he had gone

think I am? Can you avoid seeing me just because you don't want to? Do you think you can control me?" "You're the only one I want in

you love me? Say

its words acold and sharp knife that

replied, "I don't think that's

that happened to

showed me what the

gave me a feeling

will never disappear,

feel anything for you anymore,

that

you really love me, don't approach me