"What exactly is your plan, hmmm? Do you think taking her away from here is going to solve anything? What are you going to do when you step out of the door? Leland isn't at another hospital. He's right here." Gideon sought our Fira, hiding behind Austyn
"Kirs, your father's here! He's less than ten metres away from you! Look belund you! He's just beyond that door!"
Austyn spun around and spatched Kira's hand.
He threw both arms around her and pressed her face against his chest. 'Don't listen to him!'
His heart was jackhammering out of control
Gideon was relentles
ira, just tum around! Your father's just on the other side of that door!"
Kira struggled out of Austyn's arms.
Her eyes were wide open with shock
'He's he's lying, right?
Austyn's mouth opened, but speechi
He reached for her, pleading with his eyes
Kira took a tallering step backwards
"Austyn, tell me he's lying, please!!
Her hands flew torchest
Panic and fear were writ large on her face.
Wham Austyn didn't speak for a full minute, the light in her eyes went out
She wheeled around and dashed for the operating theatre, Stoplier.' Henry ordered.
Two of his guards moved towards Kira, but Austyn beat them to it.
He hauled Kira back into his arms and locked her in a tight embrace.
"Kira, please, don't go in there!!
His action as much as admitted the truth of Gideon's statement..
De was the last straw.
Kirawent hysterical,
She floundered and thrashed, flailing her arms and legs wildly,
'Let me gol' she screamed. "I want to see my father!!
Austyn's heart was bleedingMaterial © of .
He buried his head in her neck
His tears stained her collar
Hebegged her "Pase don't go in there..p
Please
Kira seized his arm and sank her teeth into it, drawing blood instantly.
She couldn't break free of his tight hold. 'Let me go!"
Her father was lying on an operating table right now, getting his organs removed, being butchered like a pig
How could Austyn stop her from trying to save her father?
kira exploded with cage. LET ME GO
Astyn held on with all his strength.
Kira would absolutely suffer a breakdown if she went into that room
He couldn't let her destroy herself like that.
"Austyn, please!' Kira sobbed. "I want to see my father. Please let me go. Please, just let me see him..one last time.
Austyn felt her body tremble in his arms.
He didn't dare loosen his grip
Her words pissed her heart like a dagger.
Kira, don't. No, please!
His voice was campy.
"I promise I'll make them pay, I swear! but you can't go in there, please. It's it's too late...
Kira stopped dead.
Too too late?
She tried to open her eyes wider to see, but tears blinded her
She only caught a glimpse of the door through the mass of bodyguards.
It was so near, yet impossible to achi
The doorlooked strikingly similar to the one she saw two years ago.
The same cold, impersonal metallic grey.
That time, saw her father being wheeled out after a full night's surgery.
The surgeon shook his head sadly and Informed ira about Leland'scoma.
This time, her father wasn't coming out at all.
Kira Blinked away he tears.
She was no longer stregling
Rage morphed into get which mutated into anall-consuming rage
Kira whirled around.
she threw her in sufid Austyn
He was led
When his hands went to stroke her back in an attempt to comfort her, kita moved swiftly and pulled out the gun stuck under his waistband She showed his chest and stepped back, holding the gun with both hands she pointed the murale straight at Inis face, unblinking
Astyn Trome, 'Kira.
Fat and brimmed in here
reyes, but her face was frighteningly calm.
It was she was berelt of all emotions.
Why did you marry me?
Austyn's lips quivered.
Tell me! Kita wrapped her fingers around the grip.
The muzzle was less than twenty inches away from Austyn's nose.
'Did you do it because my dad's organs could save your mother?"
A sharp pang of guilt pierced Austyn's chest.
He forced himself to look into her eyes, her grief-stricken, hate-filled eyes. 'Yes.'
Kira's body swayed.