Chapter 2

Aubrey shoved Julian away and rushed to the unconscious Liam.

She shrieked at Julian, “Quick! Get him to a hospital!”

Julian frowned. Just as he was about to call for someone to take Liam to the hospital,

His phone suddenly rang. He looked at the screen—it was Serena.

The moment he answered, her weeping voice came through. “Julian, my chest hurts so much! I feel like I can’t hold on!”

Julian grew anxious, hearing Serena’s cries.

He tried to comfort her. “I’m coming right away. Just wait for me.”

Seeing him about to leave, Aubrey grabbed his jacket.

“Julian, Julian, please, I’m begging you! Get Liam to the hospital first, he’s dying!”

Julian’s brows furrowed deeply. He yanked his jacket free. “Call an ambulance yourself. Serena said her condition worsened.”

“I have to go take care of her first!”

She tried to argue, but he ignored her.

Aubrey placed her last hope on the ambulance.

When she finally found her phone, it was shattered, utterly unusable.

In the end, it was one of the guards, with a pang of conscience, who called for an ambulance.

All the way to the hospital, she kept asking the doctors if Liam would be okay.

But they couldn’t make any promises.

After Liam was wheeled into the emergency room, Aubrey stood outside, pacing anxiously.

Less than half an hour after the doctors went in, they suddenly rushed out, looking utterly frantic.

She frowned, stepping forward and gripping a doctor’s wrist tightly. “Where are you going? How is the person inside?”

The doctor, frantic, explained, “A patient named Serena has had an emergency. The hospital just called us all over.”

“We’ll be back here very soon.”

Aubrey held the doctor’s arm even tighter, refusing to let go. “No! If you leave, my brother will have no one to save him!”

“So many doctors are going. It won’t matter if one of you stays!”

Aubrey cried and knelt, pleading with the doctor to stay, but he was torn.

If he didn’t go, he could kiss his career at the hospital goodbye. After a moment of agonizing deliberation, the doctor.

Still, he pulled his wrist free from Aubrey’s grasp, guilt etched on his face. “Don’t worry, I’ll be back soon.”

With that, he abandoned her and left.

She peered into the operating room, seeing Liam lying alone on the hospital bed.

His breathing grew shallow.

Aubrey gritted her teeth and rushed to another emergency room, where she saw Julian standing outside, his face etched with worry.

“Did you call all the doctors away?”

Julian looked up. “Serena’s situation is critical.”

The operating room was packed with doctors. Aubrey cried out in fury, “You don’t need this many! Just give me a few doctors, please!”

Aubrey’s eyes were red-rimmed as she tugged at Julian’s sleeve, begging him.

But he was unmoved, rejecting her with a stone-cold expression.

“Stop making a scene. If anything happens to Serena, I couldn’t bear it.”

“It’ll be quick. Just wait a little longer.”

Aubrey snatched her hand away and screamed at him, “Liam is really dying! I’ll kneel for you, okay?!”

Finally, she knelt down in front of everyone.

Julian’s face instantly changed. He pulled her up.

His voice laced with impatience, “I just praised you for being obedient, and now you’re going to upset me again?”

Aubrey softened her tone, tears streaming down her face. “Liam really can’t wait.”

Julian, with a cold look, cupped her face and began to soothe her. “It was just a few drinks. How could anything happen?”

“I didn’t put any poison in that alcohol. I knew you were trying to trick me into coming over with Liam.”

“This isn’t the time for jealousy. Be a good girl. Serena’s situation is much more serious than Liam’s.”

Aubrey could no longer hide her collapsing emotions. She screamed at Julian, “No! I’m not being jealous!”

Julian’s brows furrowed slightly, his expression displeased. “Enough. Stop being so disobedient. Once Serena’s surgery is over, they’ll go to Liam.”

Seeing that she couldn’t reason with Julian, she decided to transfer Liam to another hospital.

Just as she was about to arrange the transfer, the door to Serena’s operating room suddenly opened.

Serena’s face was pale, and her eyes, red-rimmed, looked at Julian with an expression that made her appear utterly pitiful.

“Julian, I thought I’d never wake up again.”

Julian comforted her with a pained expression, his voice full of tenderness. “It’s okay. I’m here. Nothing bad will happen to you.”

Aubrey stood to the side, watching the two of them embrace.

She felt like a hysterical madwoman.

Julian used to cherish her, treating her like a precious treasure. Knowing she was afraid of pain, he had all the sharp furniture and wall corners in their home rounded.

If she ever got a scratch or a bump, he would panic as if the world were about to explode.

When she faced difficulties, he was always the first to appear by her side.

But then, this relationship started to sour. Looking back, it seemed to be from the moment she stopped obeying his every command.

After the doctors emerged from Serena’s operating room, they immediately went to Liam’s.

Who knew how much time had passed?

The doctor came out and shook his head at Aubrey. “It’s too late. If you had brought him a few minutes earlier, he might have been saved.”

“Now, he’s in a vegetative state. As for when he’ll wake up, that’s an unknown.”

Aubrey’s legs gave out when she heard the news.

He was alive, but what was the difference between this and being dead?

She walked to his side, gently stroking his pale face.

Just a few minutes. If Julian hadn’t called all the doctors away, her brother would be waking up right now!

Aubrey collapsed beside Liam, no longer able to hold back her emotions, and cried out loud.

“I’m sorry. It’s all my fault. If I hadn’t fallen in love with Julian, you wouldn’t be like this.”

“If I had agreed to give Julian my bone marrow earlier, he wouldn’t have been so cruel to you!”

If the old Liam had heard her crying, he would have long since wiped away her tears and sought out whoever had made her cry to settle the score.

But now, he lay motionless on the bed.

Finally, Aubrey coughed up a mouthful of blood, staining the hospital floor.