Chapter 45
Chapter 45
[Atlas]
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Cordelia falls limp in my arms, her body completely unresponsive as I call her name over and over again.
“Somebody call the paramedics!” I shout into the crowd as I sweep her into my arms. “Hurry, please, I think she might have been poisoned!”
At the word “poisoned” the people around me began to panic, worried more about their own safety than that of my wife.
How did this happen? How did I let someone get close enough to hurt her so badly?
Why did I ever let her go?
The paramedics come swiftly. Feeling helpless, I let them take her from me but I refuse to leave her side.
Tilly comes rushing out, the champagne glass in her hand. “You might need this,” She holds it out to me wrapped in a napkin. “If she was poisoned, there might be enough here to help them figure out what…”
“Thank you,” I almost take the glass but then I remember that it is evidence and the police are still nearby. “But can you give this to the police? It will likely help with their current investigation.”
Tilly looks confused as if she wants to ask more, but instead, she nods, marching swiftly in the direction of the nearest police officer.
Without looking back, I rush outside to the ambulance. They were closing the back door, sealing her away.
I cannot let it drive away without me. I will not leave her side again.
“Let me in,” I bang on the closing door. “I’m her husband!”
They move aside and I take a seat next to her as they cut the elegant dress from her body. I hold her hand as they hook monitors up to her chest and cover her modestly with a sheet.
“I’m so sorry, Cordelia,” I murmur against her knuckles as I hold her hand to my lips. “I never should have trusted her.”
When we make it to the hospital, the door is swung open and I follow them out. My eyes never leave her motionless form. She seems so small and fragile lying there.
As they begin to wheel her down the hallway of the emergency room the monitors begin to beep erratically.
“What’s happening?”
Nobody answers. They wheel her into a receiving room where a technician grabs a defibrillator and begins charging it.
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