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Miguel's POV The patients, doctors, and nurses burst out of the building, all of them running for fear of what was to come at any moment now. I turned to Mason, “Have you heard anything from Perez yet?” “No. The last I heard of him was when he requested that we wait because Nando might be provoked to blow up the place if we went barging in.” “Is that so?” I clenched my jaw. That prick was causing more trouble than he was worth, and I was enraged. “Yes, but there's another way in. I got the blueprint of the hospital right here. There is a tunnel under the hospital, and we can use that to work our way in, and get them out.” “Sounds good to me. Let's go,” I said, and the minute we took a few steps all that hope was immediately sucked away. Boom! The hospital went up in flames and my heart leaped out of my chest as I watched the fire swallow up the building before my eyes. The force of the explosion pushed me to the ground. No, it wasn't that. It was the thought of them —Ava, Mar
Ava's POVI woke up on the cold ground, and my senses were immediately flooded by the overpowering aroma of decay and neglect that filled the air. A stench that woke me up fast.I flicked my eyes open to the sunlit room, taking in my surroundings as I got into a seating position.The room was a complete mess, dusty and…well like I thought, messy.It was like being inside a trash bag —Only this was bigger.Empty bottles littered the floor with crumpled papers and discarded clothing scattered about in disarray.Breathing was hard labor, and I would have given anything not to breathe right now. Everything was disgusting, and I could feel a puke crawling up my throat, but I swallowed it.Yet the single thought that I had slept among this trash made my skin crawl even more.“I see you're finally awake,” his voice echoed through the room, and my eyes shot to the entrance where he stood, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed over his chest.Fernando.His eyes fixed on me, blazing wi
Miguel's POVThe car arrived at the largest private hospital in the city a while later, and I took Mary Grace from Gracie’s arms as I headed inside the building.She was now asleep, and she looked so at peace. I held her tightly in my arms as I walked, keeping my eyes on her at all times. I couldn't help it.When the nurse had said it, I put it off as normal concern but the whole ride I had been worrying about her like crazy, and now that she was finally in my arms, I couldn't help but notice that her temperature was slightly off balance.She was a little too warm, or maybe I was overthinking it, which, in any case, couldn't be helped.My heart felt heavy, and not knowing what was really wrong with her was driving me crazy enough.There was something wrong with my little girl? The word twisted in my chest.I really hoped it wa
Miguel's POV My knees weakened. Every bit of this information sounded fishy. It was planned. It had to be because none of this made sense. I clenched my fist and the name of the culprit, easily came to mind. Nando. He must have done this. But something as dangerous as this? I was sure he didn't come up with the idea or do it alone. Li —fucking— No. That bastard son of a DiAngelo! Nando wasn't smart enough to pull this off, so this must have been Lino’s plan—that nutjob. He injected my daughter with the biohazard and set the ranch on fire. It was his fail-safe just in case I saved her and didn't die in the attempt. She was going to end up being the death of me either way. Lino. I clenched my teeth. Bastardo! My eyes flared. I needed to beat this, it was the only way he wouldn't win. “Please, doctor. You have to do something about it,” I grabbed his arm, “Please, you need to rid my daughter of the compound. I don't care how much it takes, I'll pay any price. Just find a cure,
Miguel's POVA few hours later, the result of the test came, and I was summoned to the doctor’s office. When I walked into his office, he had the report in his hands, and a look on his face that wasn't too promising.This couldn't be good.“Take a seat, Mr. Castell,” the doctor said, gesturing to the seat, and I shuffled across the room, and sat down.He flipped through the report in his hand and darted his gaze from the paper to me.“The result of your tests came back,” he paused, scratching his ear, “I have some bad news for you,” he said, and slid the result to me.I picked it up and glanced through the paper but I couldn't make sense of what I was looking at. It was all figures and medical jargon that I couldn't decipher.“What am I looking at here, doctor?” I asked after a minute, lowering the report to the table.“It's positive,” he clarified with a finger pointing at the result, “The biohazard was detected in all three of you. The result also indicates the level, and you have
Ava's POVMy brow creased with shock as I stared at the disgusting man before me.What had he done? What had he done to my little angel? This monster.Tears brimmed in my eyes as his words echoed in my head.Miguel was going to die in twenty-one days, and my daughter was a host for a biohazard.I didn't want to believe it, but it didn't sound like he was lying. Fernando was too proud about this news, and from the way he was boasting about it, I could tell it was real. He had really injected my daughter with the vial. What a bastard! I wanted to squeeze the life out of him.“You monster!” I shouted, “How could you do that to her! How could you? Did you really have to involve my daughter in your cruel plans? Leave my daughter out of your plan!” I yelled, tears streaming down my face."You’re a monster!" I screamed over and over as tears flowed out of me in buckets.Fernando laughed maniacally.“Am I?” He stooped before me and cocked his head, wearing a smile, “Fair enough. Maybe I am,
Ava's POVI shook my head, lowering my gaze to the antidote Fernando had broken before returning my gaze to him.No. It wasn't possible. It couldn't be. That couldn't have been the only antidote he had. It couldn't be. I refused to believe it.I couldn't let myself believe that the only antidote that could save my child's life was gone. No way. Believing would mean abandoning hope and giving up on my chance to save my daughter and the man I loved.There was no way I could give up on that. If I did, then all this would be for nothing. All my suffering and choice to come here would be for nothing, and that didn't sit well with me.What did I do this for? Why did I give myself up? It would all be useless and meaningless, and I couldn't accept that or even believe it.Fernando was lying. He had to be. There had to be other antidotes.I scrambled to my knees and grabbed him by the knee, holding onto him like my life depended on it. It did, in a way, because if anything were to happen to
Miguel's POVRila worked around the clock to figure out whose DNA the compound was made from, and after what felt like forever, she finally finished her research and came to me, extending the file in her hands to me.“That's everything I found out about the compound,” she said, and I took the report from her, glancing through it for about a few minutes before lowering it to the table.—Just like the test results, I couldn't make much of it either.“I'm going to need you to explain this to me. I can't understand it.”“I doubt that's an effect of the biohazard,” she teased with a smile, taking the report from the table.It was the first time I had seen her joke in the hours we had been together. If it was another moment, I would have played along, but I couldn't afford to joke right now —plus it was the exhaustion that prevented me from picking offence in the damned joke.Things were too serious, and finding the cure was everything. I sighed, feeling tense about my own situation.“I'll