Chapter 6 - The Confession
A deafening, terrifying gunshot echoed loudly through the small, ruined hospital room.
Hannah squeezed her eyes tightly shut, waiting desperately for a fatal pain that miraculously never came.
When she slowly opened her eyes, Marcus was dropping his silver weapon and screaming in absolute agony.
Ethan had grabbed a sharp surgical scalpel from the bedside tray and slashed the attacker's wrist with brutal precision.
Dark blood poured heavily onto the linoleum floor as Marcus collapsed entirely onto his knees in shock.
Hospital security guards finally burst violently through the broken door, tackling the wounded criminal completely to the ground.
They dragged the screaming, cursing man away down the corridor, leaving the room completely ruined and quiet.
Ethan was breathing incredibly heavily, his pristine white coat now completely stained with the attacker's blood.
He rushed back to Hannah's side and wrapped his strong, protective arms tightly around her trembling body.
He whispered fiercely into her hair that he would gladly die before letting anyone hurt her ever again.
Hannah buried her face deep in his chest, finally feeling entirely safe for the first time in five long years.
She looked up at his bruised, handsome face and whispered a quiet, absolute yes to his earlier question.
She agreed to marry him right there in the ruined hospital room despite the absolute chaos surrounding them.
Ethan quickly called the hospital chaplain, who arrived ten minutes later with a frantic, deeply confused expression.
They exchanged their beautiful, desperate vows surrounded by broken glass, dried blood, and armed security guards.
The moment the chaplain officially pronounced them husband and wife, Ethan's cell phone vibrated violently in his pocket.
It was an urgent text message from his trusted best friend and hospital co-director, Doctor Julian Vance.
The message contained a grainy photograph taken directly from the security monitors in the neonatal ward.
All four of the heavily armed guards stationed outside the baby unit were lying completely unconscious on the floor.
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Julian had typed a single, terrifying sentence completely beneath the frightening picture.
He wrote that Victoria Caldwell had made him a massive financial offer he simply could not refuse.
