The Million-Dollar Heart

Chapter 146

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.

institution. They wouldn’t normally have such surgical equipment. This was clearly

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 be good. Listen to what Brody

he exited the room

Vivienne and Brody, now fully

in a soft tone, “Although the drug I gave you has rendered you immobile, you can still feel pain. So, we’ll try to be

widened in fear. Yet she couldn’t move her mouth to

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she could do was cry

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

detention center and the twenty-three needles extracted from

had no intention

Vivienne

smiled at Vivienne, and gently pressed it. “The bombs

him a cold glance, moved to Arabella’s left side, uncovered

surgery was not a challenge for them. The real challenge was extracting the bombs without triggering

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

incisions made in her abdomen and the objects inserted into her. The

not to

since she entered the N&S Psychiatric Hospital, she had witnessed the depths

seemed to rule the patients in the hospital. Everyone followed his orders, and he had access to all kinds

he said there were bombs

faint; she was afraid that if she did, Vivienne and Brody

about Arabella’s

enlarge the incisions or harm

left side accurately on the screen, and in less than

to Brody while holding

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