CH 150 ~ Refusing to Believe

Alex felt his sanity slipping as he passed through the crowd of reporters to enter the hospital, his heart quivering with each step. 

'It can't be her,'

'She just returned to her country, how could she...'

'It's impossible!'

His bodyguards struggled to clear a path for him as he kept chanting those same words in his mind.

But as soon as he stepped onto the floor Neil had led him to, Alex halted, and everyone turned to look at him with pity.

"Alex..."

Bianca gazed at her son's ashen face with sorrow as Alex began to take slow steps toward the bed, which held a figure shrouded in a white sheet.

"Brother,"

Alaric and Bella wore tense expressions as Alex walked by them in a daze, while Marine, Justin, Christian, and Zed stood with blank expressions on their faces.