Chapter 3 - The Dark Ultimatum
The suffocating tension in the hospital room was incredibly thick and entirely dangerous.
Ethan glared at his mother with an absolute disgust he had never felt for another human being.
He firmly warned her that she had absolutely no legal right to harass a recovering patient.
Victoria completely ignored his fierce anger and looked directly past him at Hannah.
She smoothly reminded Hannah about the two million dollars she had supposedly offered her to disappear permanently.
Hannah gripped the white hospital bedsheets until her knuckles turned completely pale.
She bravely fired back that Victoria had never offered money, but rather threatened to drown her in the river.
Ethan felt his entire worldview shatter into a million jagged pieces at the horrific revelation.
He realized his mother was willing to commit absolute murder to protect the pristine Caldwell family reputation.
He pointed a shaking finger at the heavy wooden door and demanded his mother leave the room immediately.
Victoria let out a cold, mocking laugh that echoed unpleasantly off the sterile walls.
She arrogantly reminded Ethan that she completely controlled the hospital's board of directors with her massive financial donations.
She stated clearly that she possessed the absolute power to ruin his medical career in a single afternoon.
She slowly turned around and walked gracefully toward the exit, adjusting her expensive diamond necklace.
She told them to enjoy their pathetic little reunion while it lasted.
She promised that heavily armed agents from Child Protective Services would arrive within the hour.
She vowed to have the illegitimate twins permanently placed into state custody by nightfall.
The heavy door clicked completely shut, leaving a terrifying, heavy silence in its wake.
Hannah began to hyperventilate wildly, the medical monitors beeping frantically as her heart rate spiked again.
She desperately pleaded with Ethan to help her escape the hospital before the government agents arrived.
Ethan sat gently on the edge of the mattress and tenderly kissed her forehead to calm her down.
He swore to her that she was never going to run away from his family ever again.
He promised to use every single dollar of his personal trust fund to completely destroy his mother's corrupt empire.
Suddenly, the emergency code alarm in the neonatal ward began to blare with a deafening, terrifying volume.
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A critical code blue notification flashed aggressively across the digital screen of Ethan's hospital pager.
Someone had just intentionally turned off the primary oxygen supply to the fragile twins' medical incubators.
