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Chapter fifteen

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*Beep beep beep*

The heart monitor ringed erratically.

“Maya! Stay with us now!” The doctor's sharp voice cut through the thick tension.

Elijah stood frozen in the background.

“She's going into shock, get the defibrillator ready now!”

Elijah watched everything unfold. The way Maya's body convulsed violently on the bed. The way the nurses tried to hold her back down as the doctor tried to prepare the defibrillator machine.

A strange sound left his throat as he watched her thrash around before the doctor finally pressed the machine on her chest.

Suddenly, a nurse pushed on his chest, attempting to push him out. “You need to get out!”

But he didn't bulge. His eyes remained frozen on the woman who laid that now laid lifelessly on the bed.

“We're losing her. Clear!” Maya's body arched off the bed before throwing back on the bed again, limply.

His hands trembled at his side as his breath cane out ragged.

The last word he said to her began to ring in his ears—- Your life is a waste to me.

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