Chapter 403

The room was draped in colorful satin, but the bridal gown on the bed was torn and soaked through with blood that wouldn’t stop. Nora Murray had been moved to the bed. Her face was pale and drawn, breathing barely there. Andrew Abbott had injected a hemostatic agent, sighing as he said, “This’ll slow the bleeding a bit, yeah, but it’ll also make her blood clot too fast. It might ease the pain a smidge… that’s about it. She's too far gone.” They'd been teammates for years — seeing her like this hit every member of the Blue Eagle squad hard. Everyone cleared out, leaving Ethan Shaw alone in the room. He pulled up a chair beside the bed, looked down at her, and said calmly, “If you want, I’ll take you back to Yannburgh. You can be buried beside your father in Mount Taiping.” Ethan was never heartless, but his words always came out too rational, so levelheaded it hurt — especially when you realized he was capable of throwing all logic out the window for someone else. That’s when it hit you