CHAPTER 103: CHAPTER 103: YOUR MAN HAS ARRIVED

The bodyguards did not dare to make a sound, and quickly cleared the way for Ethan Sterling.

Nathan Ayers opened the door of the ambulance, and the doctor sensibly extended a hand to assist.

"No need."

Ethan Sterling spoke in a deep voice, avoiding the hands of the medical staff, and carefully carried Seraphina Redgrave onto the ambulance.

The doctor immediately helped adjust her position.

Unexpectedly, the next moment, Ethan Sterling also got into the vehicle.

The medical staff were completely stunned, looking at Ethan Sterling, not knowing where to put their hands and feet.

"What are you standing there for? Hurry up and save her!"

Ethan Sterling looked coldly at the stunned doctors.

How did Nathan Ayers arrange them? These doctors seemed to have something wrong with their heads.

"Okay!"

One doctor, who looked very experienced, spoke up: "Quick, perform the lavage!"

Ethan Sterling sat to the side, watching as the nurse hurriedly adjusted Seraphina Redgrave’s lying position to a lateral recumbent one, then pried open her mouth, while the doctor swiftly inserted the tube, treating her like some small animal on a dissection table.

"Could you be a little gentler!"

Ethan Sterling felt uncomfortable watching, and couldn’t help but speak up.

The doctor was startled, almost dropping the tube in his hand, and only resumed working after regaining composure, inserting the tube into Seraphina Redgrave’s body.

Seraphina Redgrave let out a slight moan, looking extremely pained.

The ambulance sped along.

"Hold her down."

The doctor instructed, then pressed the switch on the instrument, extracting the gastric juice, and then infusing a liquid.

As the liquid poured into Seraphina Redgrave’s stomach, she clearly felt the pain, her forehead covered in cold sweat.

It was too painful, she couldn’t help but struggle, and the two nurses couldn’t hold her down.

"Quick, hold her down!" the doctor commanded the nurses loudly, seeing Seraphina Redgrave’s struggling.

"Move aside."

Ethan Sterling directly pushed away the two useless nurses and pressed Seraphina firmly onto the bed himself, preventing her from struggling.

She was in too much agony, but all her resisting movements were restrained by Ethan Sterling.

Ethan Sterling looked at Seraphina, her condition was very bad.

Her face was deathly pale, with bloodstains not wiped clean at the corners of her mouth, yet her lips had no color at all. Her long hair was half-wet, drenched with sweat.

It was the first time Ethan Sterling had seen Seraphina like this.

It looked as if she could die in the next second.

Ethan Sterling stood there, looking at her, and after a long time, slowly freed one hand to gently hold Seraphina’s thin, cold sweated hand.

As soon as he held it, Seraphina immediately grasped back, so tightly he couldn’t move.

"Don’t be afraid, your man is here, you won’t die."

Ethan Sterling spoke softly, with a tone both firm and gentle, lightly wiping the sweat from Seraphina’s forehead.

After he spoke, Seraphina once again tightly grasped Ethan Sterling, fearing he would disappear.

Slowly, she stopped moving, and her eyes gradually closed, not knowing if she had fainted or... died.

——

It was light.

Fuzzy white light became clearer before her eyes, then Seraphina saw the window and the white walls in front of her.

Pain.

There was not a single part of her body that didn’t hurt, as if her bones had been broken one by one and rejoined.

She blinked, raised her hand, and saw a needle inserted in it, with medication slowly flowing into her body.

All she saw was white, where she was now, was it a hospital?

She was still alive?

"What are you looking at? As long as I’m alive, your life belongs to me."

A domineering voice rang out in the ward.

Seraphina turned her head and saw Ethan Sterling sitting next to the hospital bed, looking like he was sitting on a throne even though it was just a hospital chair.

Ethan Sterling...

Seraphina blanked out for a moment, the memories before she fainted finally came rushing back.

"Feeling brave now, wanting to die?"

Ethan Sterling spoke mockingly from the bedside.

Seraphina looked at Ethan Sterling indifferently: "You knew?"

Just four words, and her throat hurt as if it had been cut with a knife.

"When you drank the poison so decisively, was it because you were willing to risk a life to escape from me, or did you think you were some kind of reborn Nezha capable of coming back to life?" Ethan Sterling sneered, looking at Seraphina, leaving her speechless.

Seraphina nearly lost her life, and now her throat hurt too much to speak a word, not knowing how to respond to Ethan Sterling, so she remained silent.

"Ignoring me? Hm?"

Ethan Sterling wasn’t willing to let Seraphina off.

"Thank you, Young Master Sterling." Seraphina almost spoke in a breathy voice.

"Seems you haven’t gone dumb from the poison, I thought you’d open your eyes and blame me for meddling too much."

Ethan Sterling continued to sneer, clearly determined not to rest until Seraphina apologized.

Seraphina had to pretend to be extremely weak and closed her eyes to rest.

If she didn’t respond, she wouldn’t be ridiculed.

"Alright, not even willing to say anything now, huh."

Ethan Sterling looked at Seraphina’s face of ’I won’t talk, let’s see what you can do about it,’ getting more upset.

He had really spoiled her.

Seraphina sighed, slowly opened her eyes, then supported herself to sit up.

Her lips were almost white, and she didn’t look good at all; sitting up seemed to pull something, her breathing became heavy for a moment, but soon calmed again. Throughout the process, she endured it without making a sound.

Ethan Sterling looked at her, his expression somewhat unpleasant: "Lie down, don’t move around."

Although his face was still sullen, at least he wasn’t in the same accusatory posture as he was earlier.

The hospital bed could be controlled to lift using the side buttons, and she lay on the raised bed, forced to endure the pain in her stomach like being slowly tortured, incessantly.

After a long while, Seraphina finally had the strength to speak: "I didn’t want to commit suicide, I just wanted to repay all I’ve owed the Redgrave family over the years."

"Hmph." Ethan Sterling snorted coldly, mocking again, "So you didn’t even want your own life?"

It was so uncomfortable.

This poison was really harmful.

Seraphina couldn’t help but clutch at her body’s most painful stomach, yet her face showed no expression: "I thought I could survive, at least stay conscious to get myself to the hospital, but I didn’t expect the poison to be that potent."

It was the first time she had been so embarrassed because of poison.

"You thought you could live, weren’t you quite naive."

What did she think she was? A poison-resistant medicine man?

"Back in the Redgrave Family, they gave me a lot of slightly toxic drugs, keeping me sick all year. Later the poison doses increased, but I didn’t die. That’s when I realized my body might have developed resistance to poison. In the restricted area too, there were many poisonous things. They didn’t survive a day after taking them, but I was unaffected."