----
The nurse was dizzy, unable to form a coherent thought, her
mind spinning from the impact.
“Ah! Help! He’s killing me!" Her screams echoed through the
hallway, drawing the attention of several nurses who rushed
over.
"Stop! Do you know where you are? This is a hospital! If you
don’t stop, I’ll call the police!" one of the nurses shouted,
trying to intervene.
Jaden’s fage darkened as he roughly
mmeckthe nurse’s head against
the walf’again I in front of the others.
The ntrse fell unconscious. J&den
sneered i in disgust, letting he? I limp
form fall to the floor.
----
The other nurses stared in shock. Wasn’t this Ember, one of
their own? Who was this man, and why was he beating her?
“Wake her up," Jaden ordered.
Several bodyguards moved in, pping Ember hard across
the face.
‘You’ve got a lot of nerve," one of the bodyguards sneered.
“We’ve already called the police, so you better let Ember
go.”
The nurses tried to intervene but were blocked by the
bodyguards. One of the guards continued pping Ember,
causing her face to puff up like dough, blood trickling from
her mouth.
She was pped awake, spitting blood and several teeth as
she gasped in horror.
----
“I’m calling the police!" she screamed, but Jaden was
already advancing toward her, a knife glinting in his hand.
“Mr. Johnson, please. This is a hospital. You don’t want to
make things worse,” Elliot spoke up, his voice filled with
concern.
"She nearly killed Xavier, and you don’t want revenge?"
Jaden’s eyes were filled with icy rage.
With one swift motion, he sliced the knife across Ember’s
face.
“Ah! My face!" Ember screamed in agony,pletely losing
herposure.
She was starting to understand just how insane this man
was.
Jaden ignored her screams and drew the knife again,
shing across her cheek.
The nurse, unable to bear it any longer, finally broke.
“T’ll talk! I’ll talk! Just stop cutting me!"
----
But Jaden acted as if he hadn’t heard her and sliced her
face once more.
"I told you I’ll talk, just please stop!"
“I’m not interested in hearing it," Jaden muttered, pulling
Ember towards the window.
“Help! He’s going to kill me! He’s going to kill me!" Ember
screamed, terrified.
“Calm down, sir. Killing is a crime. There’s no need to
escte this,” one of the nurses begged.
“Shut up," Jaden snapped, his voice chilling as the
bodyguards around him stared with cold, eyes.
----
“If you don’t stop talking, you’ll be joining that nurse."
The nurses were frozen, covering their mouths, too scared
to utter a sound.
With one final push, Jaden sent Ember’s body halfway out
the window.
The people in the hallway gasped in shock, and the Darling
family feared for Jaden’s future if anything happened to
Xavier.
“Mr. Johnson, we can hand her over to the police," Joseph
quickly suggested.
----
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or Johnsons, ho thrived on internal
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wes conflicts.
----
But just as Ember was about to fall, Jaden grabbed her by
the leg, holding her suspended in mid-air, her body upside
down.
Ember nearly fainted from the fear, screaming for her life. "I’ll
tell you everything! Just don’t kill me!" she cried, her voice
frantic and pleading.
“T’ll handle it, I won’t involve the police," Jaden said coldly.
Joseph, Elliot, and Matthew thought to themselves, "This is
causing far more trouble than it’s worth. He’s about to kill
her!"
“Just give me a chance to speak," Ember whimpered.
----
"I was paigarge sum to find an
opportunity when Xavier was in the
hospital They told me to make Sure
he did’t make it off the operating
table That’s all, I swear! Please, I’ve
told you everything."