My Extraordinary Wife

“Honey? Honey?”

Ashlyn’s hands shook even more violently. She was already too lost in her own world.

Her lips were getting paler and her throat was getting drier by the second. She felt like she could see her mother.

“Mom, please take me with you. Dad hit me again today. I miss you, mom.”

“Mom.” She extended a hand to take her mom’s before throwing herself at her.

Don’t be afraid, Lyn. She heard her mother’s voice and saw the gentle smile on her face.

“Mom,” she sobbed as tears streamed down when she felt her mother’s tight hug around her.

Her mind was getting blurrier as time went by.

“Honey? Honey, are you still with me?” Lucas asked when he felt the tight clutches on his hands loosening slowly.

He quickly embraced her cold body. “Honey, can you hear me?” His tensed voice was filled with a trace of worry he didn’t even notice.

was silent as soon as his voice fell. The woman never

a group of maintenance staff arrived with their tools. “Is anyone inside?” one of

answered. “Please hurry open the doors!

that, the staff immediately started pounding and prying open the doors.

together to crack open the

dark elevator. Lucas

face lost all its color at the sight. He had never been this scared

turned his gaze to the staff outside. “Hurry! Please

elevator seemed to be stuck in place, though. It was difficult for them to

Honey, can you hear me?” His voice trembled as a result of extreme

moment, they had successfully opened the

unconscious Ashlyn and exited

all soaked in their own sweat from being inside

were a lot of medical staff waiting outside the elevator. They surrounded Lucas when they saw the unconscious

started pacing back and forth. “Oxygenate her first,”

the hospital bed. Her face was still as pale as

mess as he gloomily stared at