Chapter 12 - Waiting Outside The Operating Room
Before the baby could take its first breath, sudden ventricular fibrillation caused Elena’s heart monitor to flatline into a continuous tone.
“Code blue! Crash cart! Charge to two hundred!” Dr. Harrison roared, pushing me back away from the table in a blur of motion.
“Sir, you have to leave the sterile field right now!” a nurse cried out, ushering me backward through the swinging doors.
The heavy doors slammed shut in my face, cutting me off from the woman I loved and leaving me stranded in the empty hallway.
Jonas stepped up beside me instantly, catching my arm as my knees momentarily buckled from the crushing weight of the moment.
“Boss... what happened in there?” Jonas asked, his voice laced with uncharacteristic anxiety.
“Her heart stopped, Jonas,” I whispered, staring blindly at the frosted glass of the operating room doors.
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Inside that room, medical professionals were fighting a desperate war against death to keep the mother of my child alive.
And for the first time in my ruthless life, all my money, power, and influence were completely useless.
