Garden of Roses ✔️

Chapter 23

Dante

Hours have passed since I let her go into that room. Three hours and twenty-seven minutes to be exact. About an hour ago I went in there. I couldn't wait anymore, and I walked inside at the worst possible moment.

The monitor next to her was beeping aggressively, and one of the doctors was holding a defibrillator while the other one pumped her heart manually.

"Get out," one of them said. At the moment, I didn't even care to address the fact that he sounded rude and demanding. Nobody spoke to me that way. I was the one who gave the orders around here.

I listened anyway. I closed the door and took my previous position on the floor. I should've listened in the first place when they told me not to go in at all. I didn't need this. I didn't need to see her practically dead on that table.

Over an hour has passed since I walked in. I suppose the fact that they didn't come out yet means she's still alive. At least I hope so.

Soon after we came in, Bianca managed to calm down and she sat with me in the hallway. We are still sitting in silence, not knowing what to say to each other while we wait for some news.

"What happened?" She finally raises her head to look at me. Her voice is shaky and sounds like she was waiting to ask for the past half an hour.

"Isabella happened," I reply shortly, not lifting my eyes from the floor. Bianca doesn't say anything after that.

Gabriella came too, and Bianca stood up to hug her as soon as she entered the hallway. Gabi's shoulders shook as she cried, and every so often, she would let out a quiet whimper.

She was getting on my nerves although I knew that I was just being an asshole. She was not crying only for the woman in surgery. Alex was still indisposed and unconscious. She and Alex obviously had some kind of a special connection. Bianca comforted her and stroked her hair while Gabi's head leaned on her shoulder.

I feel like my brain is scrambled. I don't even know what I should be thinking about. Should I be thinking about the woman who is just a few feet away from me and fighting for her life? Or should I be thinking about my feelings for her and what they even are, and how did I even get myself into this? Or should I maybe think about my sister who is currently chasing the very woman who made both of our lives miserable?

Is she doing okay? Is she even alive? Why is everything taking so long, and why doesn't anybody have some fucking updates?

I don't want to call Camilla or Lorenzo and distract them from what they're doing. They can handle it. Isabella is alone and they have a team of snipers with them.

One thing still worries me.

Why did she shoot her? She didn't have to do that. She could've run, and we wouldn't have found her. Or she could've shot Camilla or me and kill us.

Why didn't she?

I can't figure out what the hell was going on inside her head. What could she possibly gain from shooting Regina? And not even killing her for that matter. I know that if she wanted to kill her, she would already be dead.

Was it just a distraction? Did she want me to leave Camilla alone with her? Was that her plan all along and I've just played into her trap? Or was she just being cocky as always and wanted to reveal herself theatrically? Maybe she thought that she could just escape again easily.

Could she? Did she have something else hidden in her sleeve that she could use to escape Camilla, Lorenzo, and ten snipers chasing her?

Four hours and thirteen minutes. That's how long it's been since she went in there.