Please Come Back, My Love novel Chapter 383

Chapter 383

Luca’s POV

The blood hit me first.

Not the sight of Sophia’s crumpled body on the landing, not Claire’s carefully arranged shock in the doorway above-but the smell. Copper and salt, thick enough to taste, spreading in a dark pool beneath Sophia’s motionless form like spilled wine on concrete.

My brain refused to process it. Refused to connect that broken thing on the stairs with the woman who’d been alive, furious, pregnant just hours ago

Then I saw her hand-still curved protectively over her stomach even in unconsciousness and something inside me shattered

“Lucas, I can explain-” Claire’s voice cut through the roaring in my ears.

I shoved past her without a word, taking the stairs three at a time. My knees hit concrete hard enough to send pain shooting up my thighs, but I barely fel it. All I could see was Sophia’s face, chalk-white beneath the fluorescent lights, her lips tinged blue.

“Sophia.” My hands shook as I pressed two fingers to her throat, searching for a pulse. For a heartbeat. For any sign she was still-

“I need a doctor! NOW! The words tore out of me, raw and desperate. A nurse appeared at the top of the stairs, took one look at the scene, and immediats hit the emergency call button on the wall.

Within seconds, I could hear the overhead intercom crackling to life-Code Blue, stairwell C, fourth floor. Code Blue, stairwell C, fourth floor.

I slid one arm beneath Sophia’s shoulders, the other under her knees, lifting her as carefully as I could. Her head lolled against my chest, and I felt something wet and warm soaking through my shirt. More blood. Christ, how much blood could one person lose?

“Don’t you fucking die on me,” I whispered against her hair. “Don’t you dare.

Her eyelids didn’t even flutter.

I turned toward the stairs, toward help, toward anything that might save her-and found Claire blocking my path.

“Lucas, please, you have to listen-”

*Get out of my way.” My voice came out flat. Dead. I didn’t recognize it as my own.

‘It was an accident! She grabbed me, and we both fell

I said Get out of my way.” I took a step forward, and she stumbled back, her eyes going wide

I brushed past her, close enough that is shoulder caught her and sent her spinning into the wall. I talk wou not to cAPAN told you to stay away from her. You’re looking for death, Claire.

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She lunged forward, her fingers closing around my aro

Tjerked away with enough force to send her stumbling backward. Is it because I was too lenient with you? The words came day cold, urgical. “Dad

think my warnings were just noise? Don’t mistake me for a fool, Claire.”

A crash team burst through the steel doors: three doctors and two nurses with a gurney rattling between them.

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‘I’m not leaving.”

“Sir, you can’t go into the OR-

“I’m. Not. Leaving.” I sank into the nearest chair, my legs finally giving out. “I’ll wait here. But I’m not leaving this floor.

She studied my face for a moment, then nodded. “I’ll bring you some water.”

Time stopped meaning anything.