“I think I’ve seen this film before,” Emily said sardonically.
It was only when she saw the trail of blood coming from between Stella’s legs, her eyes widened in shock. “What the…”
“Oh my God,” Stella whispered, panicked. With urgent eyes, she was clawing at her legs in fear of what was happening. “No, no, no!”
At her outburst, Jake came clambering, and his eyes tore open when he saw her.
“What did you do?!” He seethed, turning to both her and Nicolas.
Emily bristled. “I didn’t?—”
“Jake!” Stella’s pained cry interrupted their face-off. He was crouching beside her within a second.
Emily’s heart thumped within her ears. She was sick to her stomach.
“Do something, Jake! Do something!” Stella crieddesperately grabbing at his collar as the tears flooded her face.
“I don’t—I can’t…” His voice fractured mid-sentence, words slipping through the cracks of his shock. He stood paralyzed, eyes locked on the pool of blood encircling her.
“Get her up!”
Jake’s eyes found Emily’s, pupils shaking in fear.
She walked toward him and before he knew it, Emily’s hand shook his shoulders roughly. “If you don’t want to lose your baby, I advise you to wake the hell up,” she growled at him.
Jake’s eyes blinked incessantly at her. He swallowed and shakily took ahold of Stella.
Emily glanced over at Nicolas, who had already dialed for an ambulance based on the voice on the speakerphone. “Help him get her downstairs,” he ordered his bodyguards after hanging up.
Emily took the lead and held the elevator open. With the rest of them in it, it was full.
Stella was full-on crying now and her hands grabbed at her belly desperately. “I don’t want to lose my baby,” she sobbed. “Please don’t let me lose my baby, Jake.”
Jake was a shaking mess, unable to reply.
It came as a relief when the doors finally opened, and they had made it to the ground floor. The EMTs raced over to Stella and placed her carefully on a stretcher.
Jake hopped into the vehicle beside the paramedics, face fully zoned out.
When Emily saw, she turned to Nicolas.
He saw the look in her eye and knew what it meant.
They followed behind the ambulance and went to the hospital.
51
Emily and Nicolas were in the waiting room with Jake sitting across from them. He hadn’t said a thing since Stella was sent to emergency surgery. Not a word of blame, expression of anger—nothing. He was basically a shell of a man.
Even if karma was supposed to get them for all they had done to her, she never prayed for it to be in this form.
This…
It was too cruel.
Bowing her head with a deep sigh, Emily couldn’t help but begin to pray.
Nicolas’s hand rubbed at her back.
