Chapter 165. Are You Sure About This?

Athena 

"You won't lose me. I promise."

He didn't look convinced, but he nodded. "Alright. Derek, make it happen."

Derek was already on his phone, making more calls, his voice taking on that authoritative tone he used when getting things done.

Within minutes, he had it arranged. The transfer. The ambulance. Dr. Ben meeting us at the facility.

The hard part was convincing the hospital to let us take Tristan.

It took another hour of paperwork and arguing and Derek's family hospital name being dropped multiple times. 

The doctors were against it, naturally. Kept insisting Tristan needed their ICU, their specialists, their equipment. Kept saying that moving him was dangerous, that we were risking his life.

I wanted to scream at them that leaving him here was risking his life, that they couldn't help him the way I could. But obviously I couldn't say that, so I just stood there and let Derek and Orion handle it whi