Chapter 220. Children

Proserpina

I felt as though my body was being torn apart.

I wanted to scream out but my body simply was not up to anything. Wearily, I surrendered myself to the welcoming darkness that rushed at me…

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Lucien

He had bounded out of the lounge and grabbed the arm of one of the nurses in a vice-like grip.

“What has happened to my wife?” he bellowed.

“Sir, please Sir…,” stuttered the hapless young man, mortally terrified by the sight of the dishevelled, bloodied grey-haired man with pale, deadly eyes. 

Schwartz gently released the man, gripping Lucien’s arms, forcing him to calm down.

Martinez had also appeared. Speaking in rapid Spanish, he managed to find out what was happening.

“Your wife…” He looked strained as though afraid of Lucien’s reaction as he went on,

“She… she has lost a lot of blood…”

“F*CK!” roared Lucien, distraught and almost beside himself. He turned away, u