Chapter 177 - Have faith in her (1/2)

At the hospital, one of the monitoring machines started beeping loudly. Its screen was flashing.

Aiden was not sure what it means, but it didn't sound good. He felt panic and desperation swelling. ' What is going on? Am I going to lose her? How is that possible? No… oh, God no! ' He was looking at Sarah and felt his whole world crumbling. Nothing mattered other than her… and she was on the bed, not moving, and that damned machine was beeping! ' It's wrong, right? The machine malfunctioned… Sarah will be fine. Right? ' His heart shattered and his head got numb when he saw number of nurses and doctors rush in the room. They gathered around Sarah's bed, pushing him to the side.

Aiden watched them in horror while bits and pieces of what they said reached him: Her blood pressure was dropping... internal bleeding... additional scans... urgent... surgery... critical...

They rushed Sarah out of the room. The internal bleeding needs to be stopped.

Sophia came back to Sarah's room, and found only Aiden inside sitting on the ground with his back next to the wall, and his face in his hands.

”Where is Sarah?” she asked while trying to suppress panic.

Aiden didn't respond.

Sophia tried to talk to him, but he was not responding. Seeing that he is in his own world, Sophia felt her heart broke. ' He is also suffering, just like all of us .' She went outside and found a nurse who told her that Sarah was taken out for another surgery. Nurse also explained that these bleedings are difficult to find with any scans, so surgeon is basically opening Sarah up with a hope that he will notice where bleeding is coming from so that he can stitch it up.

Sophia felt that her head is about to explode. It took all self-control she possessed to calm her raging emotions just enough so that she goes to the cafeteria and get several cold sandwiches as well as two coffees before heading back to Sarah's room.

She placed food on a side table and called Aiden. ”Come and eat. If you don't eat, we will need to get another bed for you.”

It took him some time to react. He slumped on a chair opposite of Sophia and started eating without a word. He didn't feel the taste of sandwich or coffee.

Sophia pulled out her phone and called her secretary in HQ instructing her to get some food and to deliver it to Felix in the lab. They also didn't eat since they landed.

Sophia looked at Aiden and patted him on the shoulder. ”She will be OK. Have faith in her. She will pull though this. Sarah is a fighter. When everyone gives up, she is the one that keeps going.”

Aiden looked at Sophia and nodded. Yes, his baby girl is a fighter, and she will come back to him. She has to.