Chapter 128. Is He Alive?

2024

Amelia’s POV

The ride to the hospital was a blur.I barely registered the voice of the radio anchor as he moved on to another story.Something about international markets.Something about a senator’s scandal.None of it mattered.

All I could hear was my own pulse.It roared in my ears,beating faster than I could breathe,faster than I could think.My fingers clutched my phone in a death grip,calling Adrian again and again and again.But every time,the line went dead before it even rang.

Voicemail.Again.

My hands were shaking.Bad.I couldn’t even steady them.Couldn’t stop the tremble that had started in my bones the moment I heard his name on the radio.

“Come on,”I whispered to myself,hitting call again.

“Pick up.Please pick up.”

Voicemail.

My throat tightened.My breaths were coming too fast now,shallow and clipped.It felt like someone had tied a rope around my lungs and was pulling,tighter and tighter.

Because all