The sharp smell of rubbing alcohol filled the air.
Stella lay in a hospital bed, her face ghostly pale, making the scrapes across her skin look even more pronounced. A few moments later, she woke from a terrifying nightmare, her eyes snapping open to blinding sunlight.
"Ms. Stella, you're awake!" The school principal, who had been anxiously waiting by her bedside, rushed forward. "Thank god you're okay, otherwise I wouldn't know how to—"
Ignoring the agonizing pain throbbing through her entire body and her splitting headache, Stella turned her bloodshot eyes to the principal. "Where is Dr. Roger?" she croaked.
At the mention of his name, the principal's expression instantly darkened. He looked entirely at a loss for words.
"What happened to him?" Stella pressed, her neck straining, her eyes instantly filling with tears.
"Please don't panic," the principal said, trying to keep his voice perfectly level. "Dr. Roger is still in the operating room. He hasn't come out yet."
The operating room?
Stella didn't hesitate. She threw off the blankets and scrambled out of bed.
"Oh, please, Ms. Stella, you can't! You're covered in injuries, you shouldn't be moving!" the principal cried out in a panic.
Stella ignored him, stumbling blindly down the hallway toward the surgical ward.
Just as she reached the doors, they swung open. A team of doctors wheeled a gurney out. The person on the bed was entirely covered by a stark white sheet.
A doctor was standing by, speaking quietly to a nurse. "Multiple shattered bones, completely unresponsive on arrival. Pronounced dead during resuscitation. Make sure the records are detailed and contact the family."
Multiple shattered bones. Unresponsive. Pronounced dead.
Stella couldn't hear whatever the doctor said next. Those few horrifying phrases echoed in her mind, obliterating her sanity.
He was dead. Roger... was dead.


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The readers' comments on the novel: The Mocked Miss’s Hidden Crowns
Pedido: a herdeira oculta renascida :mimada por todos ....
Pedido: a herdeira esquecida amada por todos!...
Poderiam colocar o romance the hidden heiress, reborn and spoiled by everyone!...
Whos next? Rogers and stella??...
Too many side plots now. How many identities does she have? J?...
Request you to publish "she was the treasure all along" .. thank you...
Muito boa a história só quero que se resolva logo o problema da mutaçao e que a nora volte as duas se curem ! Antony e Charlotte tudo de bom e os outros casais que estão se formando tudo fofo só falta o Donald e o amigo do Andrew arrumar um amor ! História tem drama romance e comédia lottie mocinha forte que não leva desaforos Antony completamente apaixonado por ela. ( Espero que lottie acabei de vez com esteve ,Olivia ! chega de Olivia enchendo o saco e difamando a lottie parece barata morre nunca essa peste)...
Come on Lottie...go to your mother. Can't wait for the family reunion! Robert should meet Nora.......
Can I request for novel " female alpha's night of revenge "? Please. Thank you...