Shadows Between Us (Stella and Sebastian) novel Chapter 43

Chapter 43

Stella’s face turned icy cold, and her usual laid-back vibe vanished in an instant. The chill in her eyes was unmistakable when she wasn’t smiling.

Without a second thought, she ripped the IV needle out of Anne’s hand. The IV fluid mixed with blood, leaving red- stained drops on the white floor.

“Go get someone!” Sebastian called out. His presence was chilling as if winter

descended.

John spun around and left in a hurry. Lucas stared at the hospital bed, frozen in terror, checked out of reality. The next second, his feet left the ground as Big Ben scooped him up, trying to calm him down.

Stella, cold as ice, scanned the room for the medical cart. Without a word, she dragged it over, cracked open the glass vials of Epinephrine, Atropine, and Lidocaine with her bare hands, and drew the meds into a syringe.

As Stella was about to inject the meds into Annette, a furious shout exploded from the doorway, “Are you crazy? Stop right now!” Stella didn’t look up and pushed the drugs straight into Annette’s vein.

“I said stop!” The attending doctor shouted as he barged in, reaching out to yank her away.

“Shut up!” Sebastian snapped, his voice colder than a blizzard. The temperature in the room seemed to drop instantly, freezing everyone in place. Jake and the bodyguards blocked the doctor at the door.

“M-Mr. Gray,” the doctor stuttered, as if his tongue had been burned, barely able to get the words out when he saw who it

was.

“What’s going on?” A commanding voice rang out in the hallway. A middle-aged man in a black suit strode in, with the hospital director and other administrators trailing behind. Walking right beside him was Nathan, Sebastian’s hypnotherapist.

The man was Charles Trent, CEO of the biggest pharmaceutical company in the country. Over half the nation’s meds came from his company, Trent Pharmaceuticals, and their hospitals were the most famous private chain around.

The attending doctor rushed over to explain. Nathan hadn’t known about Annette’s situation until now, and he was stunned. When his eyes landed on the cold, solitary figure in the room, he suddenly realized it was the girl who’d mysteriously shown up by Sebastian’s side.

“Mr…” Nathan started, but before he could finish, Stella spun around, her presence so intense that it felt like the entire room was holding its breath.

“Mr. Trent, that’s her,” the attending doctor blurted, pointing at Stella. But the hospital director knew what Stella could do. Last time, she’d brought Annette back from the edge with one shot, after all experts had given up. He knew she didn’t make reckless moves.

“The monitor says everything is normal. If those meds mess up Annette, don’t come crying to me. I’m not taking the fall,” the attending doctor said.

He was still fuming, but Stella, face cold as ice, grabbed him by the collar and dragged him right up to the hospital bed.

“Look closely,” Stella ordered, yanking the wires off Annette that connected her to the monitor. Everyone gasped, but what happened next left them speechless.

The sensor wires were clearly disconnected from Annette, but the monitor kept showing green, numbers steady, as if nothing had happened.

“What meds did you prescribe?” Stella demanded, her icy aura making everyone freeze in place. The attending doctor felt like he was back in med school, helpless in front of a top mentor The attending doctor blurted out a string of drug names without thinking.

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“Look again!” Stella snapped, shoving the IV bags right in his face and forcing him to read the labels.

“This can’t be,” The attending doctor stammered. He felt like he been dunked in ice water, nearly collapsing as he stared at

the labels.

Not a single drug matched what he’d listed. How is this even possible?’ he thought.

He’d entered each medication into the system himself and remembered every detail. Especially for Annette, there’s no way he could have gotten it wrong.

Nathan rushed to the bedside to double-check and gave Charles shake of the head. Charles’s expression went stone cold.

“Pull up the records,” Charles ordered, his voice low and commanding. He shot a glance at Sebastian, knowing that if they couldn’t give him a satisfactory answer, none of them would make it out of here alive.

“If you know what’s good for you, you’d better have the doctors check every room in this hospital,” Stella said.

Her eyes flashed with defiance, the amber in her gaze deepening to a fierce glow. She lifted her hand and locked eyes with Charles, daring him to challenge her.

Charles frowned instinctively and wondered, ‘What does she mean by that?’

Suddenly, a voice called out, “Doctor, hurry! Help! Somebody, please!” In the very next moment, screams and cries erupted in the hallway, turning the place into a living hell.

Medication mistakes spread through every room, sending nurses and doctors into a frenzy. Simultaneously, the hospital’s north, south, east, and west entrances all slammed shut and locked, leaving everyone trapped in the chaos.

An unknown fear was crashing over the hospital, more intense than anything they’d ever faced.

The hospital director hung up, his face drained of color, and sweat glistening on his skin. He passed along the call exactly as it had come. Chaos had erupted, every exit was sealed, and the hospital was locked down, trapping everyone inside.

“Call the police,” Charles said. He didn’t miss a beat, but his gaze landed squarely on Stella. She’d given him that warning earlier, almost like she’d seen this coming.

Stella let Charles stare her down, but once she was sure Annette was safe, rage erupted inside her.

Annette was only out of danger because they’d rushed in fast, caught the mess right away, and the meds hadn’t been pumped in too much. But there were still tons of critical patients in the hospital. One slip-up and someone could die.

She instinctively looked over at Sebastian. Big Ben, still holding Lucas, suddenly heard a crackling noise from within his body, hit by some electromagnetic interference. At the same moment, every screen in the hallways and patient rooms went pitch black.

Then, every monitor was taken over by the same image, a man sitting in a dark room, wearing a bizarre white mask.

It was like someone had slammed the pause button. The hospital already gripped by fear, fell into a deathly silence. Everyone stared at the masked man on the screen, waiting for him to speak.

Charles looked down at his phone. In the Haliville medical system’s emergency chat, messages were pouring in one after another.

The entire Haliville medical network had been hacked by a single hacker, and all systems were paralyzed. Every hospital screen was now hijacked, playing the same video on loop.

Someone had already started livestreaming the chaos on a video app, and it went viral in minutes, rocketing to the top of the trending charts. Suddenly, everyone was glued to their screens, all eyes on the hacker.

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“Don’t even bother, you Clusian trash,” the hacker sneered, his voice dripping with contempt. Even behind that creepy mask, his arrogance shone through the screen. Stella’s gaze sharpened cold and piercing as steel.

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