When There Is Nothing Left But Love

Confused, I asked, “What’s wrong, Tessa?”

She sneered at me for a while and pulled her clothes up, revealing her bandaged torso, much to my shock. “When did this happen? Who hurt you?” Who was I kidding? Of course I knew who hurt them. Her wound was on the belly, after all, but still, the fact made me shudder.

I saw the rows of operating theatres in Abe’s villa, and I saw how they stuffed women’s stomachs with kyanine. The scar on Tessa’s torso told me that Abe’s men had stuffed kyanine in them.

And then I was reminded of how deathly pale they were over the past few days. And they’d clutch their stomach, holding in their pain. This isn’t the glass room’s side effect. Their body’s rejecting the kyanine. It’s an alien object. No wonder they’re looking like this.

I asked, “Are the other girls like this too?” I felt a lump in my throat.

Tessa looked at me, her lips pursed, her eyes filled with hatred. She didn’t answer my question, and I thought she hated me. I couldn’t say anything else, so I stared back into her eyes. Anything I had to say would sound like hindsight, and that would make her hate me more.

All I could do was meet up with Armond as soon as possible so I could ask him to get someone to extract the kyanine from their bodies.

I said hoarsely, “Listen to me, Tessa. I’ll meet up with Armond. I know he can get someone to take that thing out of you guys.” Then I went out. The lobby was guarded by the man who brought us in the day before.

me and said, “Please go back to

to see

be here shortly. Please

but I needed someone

Murphy is here. Please do not get in the

afternoon, and I quickly stopped him. “Mr. Murphy, my friends got kyanine stuffed in them. They need a doctor to take it out. That, or they have to go to

a hospital overseas was hard, and anyone would get suspicious if they found kyanine in the girls’ bodies. It’d be bad if they looked

and called a doctor, then he looked at me. “We don’t have an operating theatre here, and I can’t take them to a proper hospital, so I’m getting a private

knew that much, and I

into the cars with Armond’s men’s help, and I followed them, but Armond stopped me. “Stay here. It won’t be easy to get away

of blood. Armond went to talk to his men who were going to send the girls to the hospital,

saw him off, then I realized his suit was darker

tracks and looked at me, his face