Chapter 266
Seraphina thought she was seeing things.
Flashing through her mind were past images that mirrored the straight line she was looking at right now.
The first time, she was ten, standing at her father’s deathbed.
She didn’t understand what the line meant then, only that her mom fainted the moment she laid eyes on it.
In front of her, her dad lost consciousness and so did her mom.
From then on, she was without a dad and essentially, without a mom.
The second time was when Betty drew her last breath.
Betty was seriously ill by then and Seraphina, who was in denial, slowly couldn’t deny reality anymore.
When the flatline showed, she held Betty’s cold hand calmly, planting a gentle kiss on it.
Only when Sandra behind her broke into tears did her own tears finally fall.
Now, it was Sandra laying on the hospital bed, the straight line appearing before her eyes once again.
She thought she had nothing else to lose, but it seemed she still did….
Seraphina bit her lip, struggling to calm her breath and heartbeat. When she looked at the monitor again, it was still a straight line.
She couldn’t believe it, turning to look at Leandro, hoping for a different answer from him.
Leandro was expressionless, a hint of pity in his deep eyes.
He reached out and held her.
again, this time to Bowen.
stood like a statue, his face pale, his expression bleak, as if his soul had
Seraphina reached out and grabbed his
said, “Get in there! You’re the one she loves most, the one she can’t bear to leave! You
no matter how much force she used, how loudly she screamed, Bowen remained motionless,
sickroom opened, and the medical staff performing the emergency treatment walked out one by
our best, but Ms. Sandra has passed
this, Bowen seemed to snap
stiff look, then said in
he just kept repeating, “Impossible,
away the people in front of him and
lost all sense of consciousness. She couldn’t
as if someone was pulling her, dragging
she opened her eyes and saw Leandro
low, as if it
her head dazedly, and saw Bowen holding Sandra
his arms, neck, and forehead throbbing. But Sandra in his arms had no reaction
in pain anymore,
the
this a kind of relief?
Seraphina was lost in thought, her phone suddenly
out her phone a little stiffly and saw that it
at that moment, she couldn’t quite remember what the name Herman meant.
phone from her, and answered
answering the
off Seraphina,
Seraphina finally came to
looked into the sickroom
pain now, but why?
did she have to go through so much pain before getting
shouldn’t have had to endure all this
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