#Chapter 31: Why Didn’t You Beg?

Roman paces outside of the hospital room where inside, the doctors continue to try to save Tessa’s life. It’s been thirty minutes so far, and still they work. A nurse he stopped told him, with fear in her eyes that it could be hours still before their work is done.

“There’s so much bleeding,” that nurse said. “As the doctors work, they have to be careful not to strain the heart too much or we coul