Stay With Me, Please…

Sophia had fainted, yet just as her head hit the soil, Nicholas' eyes widened; he instinctively caught her. 

So she wasn't alright after all. 

Her chest heaved up and down. 

Nicholas said as he gently lifted her. The palace lobby wasn't too far a sprint away. 

Even whilst she was unconscious, it was apparent she was in a multitude of pain. 

He whispered incomprehensibly, 'Stay with me, Windsor. Please.' 

Time quickened when he'd sprinted to the lobby with Sophia in his muscular arms. It was easier since he knew the palace by the back of his hand, but of course, it was a given since he had grown up there. 

He called for a valet to drive him to the nearest hospital. There was the palace infirmary, but it wouldn't suffice. 

"Bring us to the hospital, as quickly as possible," Nicholas ordered the royal valet - who doubled as a bodyguard, in case anything were to happen.