Hired a Gigolo Got a Billionaire (Zoey and Christian) novel Chapter 164

Chapter 164

Christian’s POV

The world stopped the moment I saw Zoey fall down the marble stairs.

My brain couldn’t keep up with what my eyes were seeing. My pregnant wife was tumbling down, her body hitting the steps at brutal angles. The sickening thud of every impact echoed through the exhibition hall.

“Zoey!!!” I screamed, dropping everything in my hands and sprinting toward the staircase.

The entire pavilion froze. Hundreds of people stood in shock, but all I could see was my whole world lying at the bottom of those stairs, motionless, and surrounded by a growing pool of blood.

I dropped to my knees beside her, my hands trembling uncontrollably as I touched her pale face.

“Zoey, baby, talk to me!” My voice cracked, desperate, shaking. “Stay with me, love. Please, stay with me!”

Her eyes fluttered weakly, struggling to focus on me. And then, barely a whisper, her voice broke the air.

“He’s not moving… Matt’s not moving.”

And her eyes closed.

“NO!” I shouted, pressing my fingers against her neck until I felt her pulse. It was faint, but there. “Zoey, don’t you do this to me! Stay awake!” I turned toward the crowd, panic boiling over. “Has someone called an ambulance?!”

“It’s on its way!” someone yelled back.

Marcus appeared beside me out of nowhere, dropping to his knees

“Christian! What happened?”

“I don’t know,” I choked out, barely able to breathe. “She went upstairs to get some materials, and then I… I don’t know what happened!”

A few feet away, I saw Elise sprawled on the floor too, motionless, blood on her face. But I couldn’t process it. I couldn’t see anyone but Zoey.

I shrugged off my jacket and slid it under her head, trying to stop the bleeding from the gash on her forehead, my hands slick

with her blood.

“Please, love,” I whispered, pressing my forehead to hers. “Please stay with me. Matt and I need you.”

The paramedics arrived five minutes later, maybe less, but it felt like hours. They immediately took control, assessing her, stabilizing her neck and spine, barking medical terms I couldn’t understand.

“Sir, are you the husband?” one of them asked.

“Yes,” I said, my voice raw. “I’m Christian Kensington.”

“How far along is she?”

“Seven months.”

They exchanged a grim look that made my stomach twist. One of them muttered something about “severe abdominal trauma.”

“We need to move her now,” another said firmly. “We’ll take her to St. Luke Hospital-it’s the closest with a neonatal ICU. You

can ride with us.”

Inside the ambulance, everything blurred into beeping monitors and flashing lights. I couldn’t take my eyes off her. Her heartbeat was erratic, her pressure dangerously low. One paramedic held an oxygen mask over her face while another adjusted IV lines and checked monitors.

“How’s the baby?” I asked, my voice cracking.

The paramedics exchanged a glance.

“We’ll be at the hospital in three minutes, sir,” one said gently. “They’ll take care of everything there.”

But his tone told me what I didn’t want to hear.

It was bad. Worse than I could bear to imagine.

Everything at the hospital moved in a blur of chaos and white lights. Zoey was rushed straight into the emergency room, and I was led somewhere else-some sterile waiting room where they told me a doctor would come to speak with me.

I tried to follow the gurney, but a nurse stopped me gently.

“Sir, the doctors need to work now. Someone will come speak to you soon.”

The word soon meant nothing. Time had stopped. I couldn’t sit. I couldn’t breathe. I paced the room, my hands shaking, my heart pounding so violently it felt like it might rip out of my chest. Every minute stretched into eternity.

I stood frozen as they wheeled her away. It felt like they were taking my heart with her. The doors swung closed behind them

with a hollow sound that echoed inside me.

Joseph, Marcus, Isabelle, Lawrence, and Zoey’s family arrived about thirty minutes later. All of them looked stricken, terrified.

“Christian!” Joseph came straight to me, his old hands trembling as they gripped my shoulders. “How is she?”

“I don’t know,” I said, my voice hollow. “They’re operating. I don know anything.”

Regina, Zoey’s mother, looked like she was in shock, her face drained of color.

“How did this happen?” she whispered.

“She fell down the stairs,” I managed to say. “I don’t know how… just saw her fall and-”

I couldn’t finish. The image slammed back into my mind-Zoey tumbling, the sound of her body hitting the marble, the blood… God, so much blood.

Annie was crying quietly in the corner. Matthew was pale as a ghost. Roberto held his wife as if she might collapse.

Marcus sat down next to me.

“She’s strong, Christian.”

“But you didn’t see the doctor,” I said, shaking my head. “When I asked if she’d be okay, he couldn’t even look me in the eye.”

That look wouldn’t leave me. The way his voice faltered when he said she’d lost too much blood. The way he didn’t promise anything.

I buried my face in my hands, and the dam finally broke.

I cried.

For Zoey. For Matt. For the life we’d built, for the future that was slipping through my fingers. I cried like I hadn’t since I was a child-loud, raw, helpless.

Joseph placed a hand on my shoulder but said nothing.

There were no words left. Only the silence of waiting. And the desperate prayer that my family would find their way back to me.