Chapter 27. Between Life and Death
505 Words
Darkness.
That was all Elena could feel at first.
Then slowly…
Voices.
Running footsteps.
Waves crashing violently against metal walls.
Her heavy eyelids weakly fluttered open.
Everything looked blurry.
Strange faces moved around her while bright lights hurt her eyes painfully.
“She’s awake!”
“No, she’s fading again!”
Elena groaned softly in pain.
Her entire body felt broken.
Then through the blurry vision, she saw a familiar face leaning over her.
Camilla.
“Elena!” Camilla’s voice cracked immediately.
Tears filled Elena’s weak eyes.
“C-Cam…”
Camilla tightly grabbed her cold hand while panic filled her usually fearless eyes.
“You’re safe now.”
Elena tried speaking again but another sharp pain suddenly ripped through her stomach.
She screamed weakly.
One of the doctors instantly looked alarmed.
“She’s going into labor!”
The words echoed around the large medical room inside the ship.
Everything became chaotic immediately.
“Prepare the emergency room now!”
“She’s losing too much blood!”
Elena’s vision blurred again while pain consumed her body completely.
Meanwhile Camilla stood frozen beside the bed, terrified.
When she received Elena’s desperate text hours earlier, she immediately tracked the location using her underground connections.
Because unknown to almost everyone—
Camilla wasn’t only a fashion business owner.
Behind the glamorous life, she secretly ruled part of the underground mafia network under another feared identity only Elena knew.
Finding Elena had been easy.
But seeing her nearly dead beside the river shattered Camilla completely.
“What happened to her?” one doctor asked urgently while preparing equipment.
Camilla looked confused and angry at the same time.
“I don’t know!” she snapped emotionally. “She disappeared for months and suddenly sends me a message covered in blood!”
Another painful scream escaped Elena’s lips.
The doctor immediately turned serious.
“The second baby is coming.”
Camilla froze.
“Second… baby?”
Shock filled her face instantly.
She didn’t even know Elena had been pregnant.
“Elena…” Camilla whispered in disbelief.
Everything became even more confusing now.
Before Camilla could process anything further, Elena suddenly grabbed her wrist weakly.
“Please…” Elena cried softly through tears. “Save… my baby…”
Camilla’s eyes immediately softened.
“You both will survive,” she promised firmly.
Then she turned toward the doctors with deadly seriousness.
“I don’t care how much it costs.”
Her voice shook with fear and anger.
“Do everything possible to keep her and that baby alive.”
The doctors nodded quickly before rushing Elena toward the emergency operating room inside the ship.
Meanwhile outside the medical room, Camilla leaned against the wall shakily.
For the first time in years…
The feared underground mafia queen looked terrified.
Nina still knew absolutely nothing.
Camilla decided to keep everything secret for now because Elena clearly hid this life for a reason.
And despite all the confusion—
One thing remained certain.
Someone had hurt Elena badly.
And whoever did this…
Would eventually pay for it.
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