Chapter 49

In the darkness, I could still faintly hear some voices. I could hear Rachel's cries as well as Zion's and the doctor's anxious shouts. "Stephanie, hang in there…" "Stephanie!" "Stephie!" "She's been holding on for too long. We found her too late… Maybe, maybe if we were one day earlier… Just one day… she would've survived." The doctor's voice broke, and his eyes turned red. "She was pregnant too…" As a spectator, he seemed to be unable to believe what had happened to me. "She must have been in such despair." Phil looked away. "If only we had found her earlier… Two lives were lost from this! That animal!" "She was tortured so badly that her finger bones were shattered. And just to make her look more delicate, he injected her with a huge amount of drugs. Her skin is even paler than a doll's now. "That psycho… displayed her like a piece of art in this glass case!" One of the female officers also broke into tears and looked away. Sitting on the ground, Michael's breathing grew h