— x.ᴅ.ʀ.

Jumping next to Antea I cradled her limp body in my arms. Blood was all over her lower half causing my arms to shake from fear of the worst.

'I can't lose any one of them, not ever again.'

Shaking her shoulders I called her name but got no response from her. Her once rosy cheeks loosed their rosy color and became lifelessly pale.

"Get me the doctor! NOW!" I yelled at top of my lungs at the men that stood standing us. They all flinched a little from me but made no movement to get away.

"Boss, the doctor isn't here. He went with another team in case of injuries." A word from one of the men only made anger and rage double within me.

"Get me a fucking car." I ordered through my clenched teeth on which he quickly made his way towards the garage, running like his life is depending on it. Well in some way it is.

"Hold on amore. Just a little longer." Mumbling in her hair I pressed her body in my chest as I stood up carrying her bridal style towards the path where a man took off.

I stopped a couple of feet away from the entrance of the garage when mother's scream was heard. Turning to face her, I found her staring at the almost lifeless body in my hold.

Before I could tell her anything father grabbed a hold of her pulling her into his side. "Xavier, go. I will take care of this mess."

Giving him a curt nod I turned towards the car that stopped next to me. Siting in I hold her body close to me in my lap feeling her temperature drop.

Her skin started to get colder and colder while her once pink plump lips started to look choppy and blueish gray. But this color instead like the color of her eyes that brought only happiness in my life, this color looked lifeless, her lips looked like the death himself painted them.

. . .

"I need a doctor, now! She is bleeding and she is pregnant." I started screaming the moment my foot stepped into a hospital. A nurse and doctors came rushing towards us with the hospital bed rolling behind them.

Putting her on the bed I let the doctors lead the way towards one of the rooms in the hospital, although when we got to the doors I was stoped and pulled back by one of the nurses.

"I'm sorry, sir, but you can't get in." Her words didn't have any influence on me as I pushed her to the side and was about to walk back in but her hold on my arm prevented me from that.

"Sir," I was so in the daze still looking at the door through which doctors rolled Antea just a moment ago "..sir, listen to me. We can't help her if you are there and distracting us. You need to stay here. Just stay here and let us do the job."

I shook my head to clear my mind and looked at her, finally realizing what she told me. "Bene.." my voice shook "save her."

"We will sir, we will give all of us, but you need to answer me a question. You said that she is pregnant, how long is she?"

"Umm," my mind was working so fast doing the math about how far along she is, everything seems blurry but I remembered an ultrasound she had a couple of weeks ago. "31 weeks."

"Okay, sir, please sit here and wait for someone to come to you. We will give all of us to help your wife." Before I could say or ask anything she walked through the door leaving me alone with my thoughts in the deserted hallway.



— ᴀ.s.

Pain.. pain is all I could feel. My whole body aches from the pain.

I tried to make my eyes focus but couldn't, they keep focus and unfocusing. A pain in my stomach was unable that I couldn't stop a painful grunt that escaped my closed lips.

The voices around me seem to be urgent, concerned, they kept shouting and screaming yet I couldn't understand a single word. My heart hammered in my chest while Aleksei's words echoed in my head.

'.. killed.. starved... abused.. beaten... raped...'

"... losing a lot of blood..." I could hear a voice yell on top of its lungs however it seemed like it is down the tunnel. I could feel my eyes start to unfocus and black spots appear in my vision.

A pain in my stomach started to get worse with every passing second. It felt like my stomach started to get cramps that are tearing my muscles and breaking bones inside me.

"Get the emergency surgery room ready, we need to go now or we will lose-" I couldn't hear the rest as darkness took over my body causing me to slip into her embrace.



— x.ᴅ.ʀ.

My heart jumped in my throat as another nurse emerged from the hallway that leads towards the surgery room where they took Antea twenty minutes ago.

He looked around the room then fixed his eyes on me. Giving me a solemn look he walked closer till he was standing in front of me.

My whole world stilled as I watched him. My hands shook by my sides and I looked at his face which was holding a look of pity and sadness.

"I'm so sorry." He said while shaking his head sadly making my eyes stinging with unshielded tears "We did everything that was in our power but we couldn't save them."

As words left his lips I felt the ground shake under my legs making my legs give out from underneath me. The pain in my chest wouldn't let me breathe.

"H-how? What happened? She went inside just fine. They said that she wasn't in life danger if she goes on surgery right away. If she was someone would tell me, you would NEED to tell me." I screamed as I looked at the frightened look on the doctor's face.

"I'm sorry sir, but during the operation, she started to bleed heavily and we couldn't stop it." He said making my anger rose.

"So it's your fault that she is dead?" I asked getting up from the floor and pulling the gun from behind my back that I took from a car.

"N-no, sir. Miss Hannah had a-" he started to shutter while looking at the gun pointed towards his head.

"Who the fuck is Hannah?" I spat angrily, glaring at fucker who was shaking in front of me.

"Yo-your wife, sir. You are Kevin Blake, right?" He asked making me lower my gun from his head.

"No. I'm Xavier Del Re and my wife is Antea Del Re." I said and the poor guy paled.

"Oh, my God. I'm so so-sorry sir. I changed you for someone else. Your wife is going to come out any second now. I'm so terribly sorry. I should have asked your name before I said anything." He said making me sigh in relief.

"Go get my wife." I settled while wiping angry tears from my face. I flicked my wrist to him telling him mutely to fuck off before I make a hole in between his brows. On which he hurriedly secured his way back towards the surgery hall.

"Of course sir. I apologize once again." He apologized getting back into a hallway through which I couldn't go, to see her myself.

"She is okay. She is gonna be okay. Everything is gonna be fine." I mumbled easing myself down on a chair next to me feeling my legs grow weak from everything that happens.

'It all ended. He is dead.' Trying to calm my racing heart I took a deep breath letting hospital air fill my lungs. 'This is the end of his torture over all of us. He can't hurt anyone anymore. His story is done.'

. . .

I waited a couple more minutes pacing a room while wiping my sweaty hands on my bloodied shirt. A panic rose in me after that nurse didn't come back from the room making a lot of bad stuff came into my mind.

Voices from the hallway made me spin around so fast that I almost fell over my shaky legs. A nurse and doctors emerged through doors welling a white hospital bed on which Antea laid.

Her dark hair was made into a bun causing her face to get into the spotlight, her cheeks get a little of a rosy color along with her lips.

"Is she okay?" The question slipped my lips instinctively as I skimmed my eyes over her face once more.

"She is stable, she will be fine-" that's everything I need to hear. My eyes trailed over her body and stopped on her stomach or what was left of it. There was no baby bump like before. Her stomach wasn't round like before instead it looked normal.

'It happened again.' Voice in my head said 'It's all your fault. Again.'

"A baby?" I looked at the doctor whose face turned into one of pity causing my blood to run cold and lump form in my throat. 'No, please, no.'

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[A/N] Three more chapters till the end. ♡ Hope you enjoy reading. ♡