Chapter 329 The Longest Minutes
Amanda’s POV:
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Over the phone, Theo rattled off the hospital address at lightning speed. The moment I hung up, I bolted for the exit.
Cody was still standing there in a daze, not fully understanding what had happened. When he saw how pale I was and how frantic I looked, he hurried after me and grabbed my arm. “Ms. Lamb, what’s wrong? What happened?”
I clutched his arm, my fingers turning white from the pressure. My throat tightened, and I struggled to force the words out. “Mercybridge Hospital … take me there … Samson was in an accident…”
Cody’s expression changed instantly. Disbelief filled his eyes.
He was about to ask more when his phone suddenly rang in his pocket. He answered in a panic. After only a few seconds, the last bit of color drained from his face, leaving him just as pale as I was.
When he hung up, his voice trembled, hoarse and unsteady. “Ms. Lamb, I … I’ll take you to the hospital right now.”
We sprinted all the way to the parking lot. Cody’s hands shook so badly that it took him a while just to start the car. The vehicle sped down the road, and I clenched my fists tightly, my palms soaked with cold sweat.
Inside me, Alice’s wolf spirit howled in agitation. “Amanda, is Samson okay? I can’t feel his presence anymore.”
“He’ll be fine,” I repeated silently to myself, but it felt like an invisible hand was crushing my heart, making it hard even to breathe.
I didn’t dare imagine what I would do if something had really happened to Samson.
What should have been a 10-minute drive felt like an entire lifetime.
The moment the car stopped at the entrance of Mercybridge Hospital, I shoved the door open and rushed inside. As soon as I reached the emergency corridor, I saw a familiar figure.
Samson sat slumped on a bench in the hallway. His suit was soaked in bright red blood. His face was scraped and smeared with dirt and dried blood. He looked exhausted and battered, nothing like himself.
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“Samson!” I rushed over and crouched in front of him, my voice shaking uncontrollably. “Are you okay? Are you hurt?”
Cody ran over as well, asking anxiously, “Mr. Ortega, how are you feeling? Should we get your wounds treated right away?”
Samson slowly lifted his head. His eyes looked hollow and lost, a look I had never seen before, like a trapped animal that had lost its sense of direction.
His gaze settled on my face for a few seconds before he finally spoke. His voice was dry and rough. “I’m fine.”
Hearing him say that made the tight knot in my chest loosen just a little. But the next second, a thought hit me, and my heart dropped hard. “Hugh? What about Hugh? How is he? He was with you, wasn’t he?” I asked urgently.
Samson’s POV:
“Mr. Ortega, please don’t worry. Mr. Hugh is lucky. He’ll be alright,” Cody said quietly from the side, trying to comfort me.
But I knew how empty those words were. The longer the red light outside the operating room stayed on, the tighter my heart clenched. My mind kept replaying the moment of the crash over and over again.
The out-of-control truck had slammed into us from the side without warning. The impact sent the car spinning instantly.
In that split second, Grandpa had lunged toward me, using his own body to shield me. Shattered glass cut across his face. The twisted metal of the car crushed against him, yet he held onto me tightly, shouting over and over, “Samson, don’t be afraid.”
Thinking about it made my eyes burn, and tears spilled down my cheeks before I could stop them.
I hurriedly wiped them away, but the tears kept falling, faster the more I tried to stop them.
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