Chapter 280

An hour later, Lucas was pushed out of the operating theater. The surgery lasted for seven hours.

Lucas lay on the bed in a ward with tubes inserted into both his mouth and nose.

Chelsey's heart broke for him.

"Lucas, open your eyes and look at me, will you?" she sobbed.

"Wake up. Get well soon… Get up and look at me."

She gripped his hand tightly as she called out his name repeatedly. Everything else was insignificant in the face of death.

She couldn't bother with anything else as long as Lucas was healthy and alive. She didn't mind if he lost a limb, his vision, or his mind now.

She was willing to assume the role of a caretaker to attend to him, even if it meant for the rest of her life.

Chelsey kept watch by the bed. Her eyes were trained on Lucas the entire time.

In addition to the wound on his chest, many other physical injuries were also visible to Chelsey. His body was almost entirely covered with bandages.

She took out a Q-tip, immersed its tip in water, and