Chapter 368: Get A Doctor!
Back in the living world, Rohan still held his son in his arms for almost an hour now, since he had fallen into the state of unconsciousness. He didn’t know how Angel had gotten the ability, but the fact that he could see Kuhn then was clear evidence that he had inherited part of his mother’s ability. However, Rohan had not thought he would actually be able to step into the land of the dead like Belle.
The more time ticked by, the more worried he became about his family being on the other side of the world while he was here.
The soul in Belle’s body had gone through intense pain. She had been screaming the whole time, but the cloth Evenly had stuffed in her mouth muffled the sound. Angel had put a stroke of fire in her blood vessels that made her go through unbearable pain.
She had begged with teary eyes, but nobody listened to her. She had brought herself into the body and could leave it if she wanted to. The pain must have become so unbearable that, after some minutes, she went silent and still. That was when Rohan felt her slip out of the body, leaving it hollowed and empty.
But before he could even put his son down and look to see if there was any breath left in his wife’s body, Angel suddenly jolted awake with a cry, his little body trembling, tears streaming down his flushed face.
"Mama!" he cried out as he rubbed a hand against the side of his stomach. Rohan hastily ripped away his nightshirt and saw the red finger marks on his skin that were already beginning to heal.
Immediately, he realized Belle must have done that to wake him up, which meant he had found her in the other world. If Angel was back and the soul had left, it meant his wife could return at any moment as well.
Without wasting a single moment, not even to console his crying son, Rohan handed him over to Evenly before climbing onto the bed to check on Belle’s body. But what he saw there knocked the very breath out of him.
She had gone pale like a corpse, and a fresh wound was slowly forming on her forehead. Blood was gushing out and rolling down her face into the pillow, soaking it dark pink.
"No, no, no," Rohan muttered as he stumbled forward and pulled her head away from the pillow, placing it on his thigh and trying to stop the bleeding by pressing his sleeve onto it. It wasn’t good at all. She was supposed to be awake without the imposter in her body, but with this much blood, it only meant she had hurt herself badly in the other world.
Everything else blurred away from Rohan’s senses, and all he could think about was his wife. Even his son’s loud cries at the sight of his mother were a blur as he tried to stop the bleeding with shaky hands. She was breathing, but it was barely there, and her heartbeat was so weak he could hardly hear it. She was slipping away from life slowly.
Seeing how the blood kept gushing out like a dam had been broken inside her head, Rohan realized it wasn’t something he could stop with the cloth. Too much blood.
"Rav, call the damned doctor!" he gritted as the warm liquid soaked into the cloth he pressed on her head and into his trouser, but no matter what he did, it wasn’t stopping. The scent of blood barely registered in his vampire senses as his heart and mind fell into panic and anger at the helplessness of how fragile a human life was, how easily it could be lost by a wound and too much blood lost.
Rav, who had been ordered to get a doctor, was reluctant, not because he didn’t want to go, but because he had no idea where to find a doctor without bringing the attention of humans to what was happening in this room. But if he didn’t get the doctor, the lady might die at the rate her blood was being lost.
Rav ran out of the room with speed at that thought. The entire hall was empty with no sight of maids, but he could hear the frantic shuffle of feet as if the human servants were purposely avoiding and running away from him.
Rav muttered words of frustration as he needed at least one person to tell him where to find a doctor before it was too late. Many noble families had their family physician close to them so that when emergencies arose, the doctor would be a call away. But not being from here, someone had to lead him in the doctor’s direction.
Rav found a maid running up the stairs at speed, her hands holding up the front of her dress so she could flee from the vampire. He used his supernatural speed and caught her arm, pulling her back. She let out a scream.
"P-please, don’t kill me!" she cried, shrinking back. Many of them had been wary ever since their blood was being fed to the night creatures, and now, seeing the vampire running frantically inside the halls, looking as though he were searching for his next meal, the entire house staff had fled. Some had even left the house altogether. She was the unlucky one who hadn’t run fast enough, and now he had caught her!
Rav grabbed both her shoulders and shook her. "Where can I find a doctor?" he demanded impatiently.
The maid, too scared to hear what he had actually asked her, thought he was asking about the nobles of the house and quickly said, "L-lady Louisiana has gone out for a tea party with Lady Eve, and the Duke has gone to attend a meeting in the court. P-please don’t kill me!" She began to struggle against him, trying to pull her arm away from his grip.
"I said a doctor—" Rav didn’t even finish his question before the useless maid passed out in fear, falling to the ground like a sack of grain.
Rohan, on the other hand, felt a deep fear engulf him and grip his heart when Belle’s lips turned blue, her eyes hollowed, and the blood had soaked so much into his clothing like sticky water that he could not begin to imagine how so much could come out from a single body.
His fear grew into a helpless, furious anger because he realized how he had no power to preserve a life so important to him. He began frantically speaking to her in order to keep the little life inside her from slipping away, all while pressing down to hold in the blood that was seeping out.
"You can’t die on me, Isa. Don’t you even dare do that. If you fucking die on me, the entire world will die with you, I swear it. Every single person will pay the price. You always want to save the world, you always want to keep people alive, don’t die, or I will take every life, including your useless parents and sister. You don’t want them gone, do you?
"You can’t leave us here, damnit! We haven’t lived half of our life yet; it can’t end here. Do you hear me? It can’t. I won’t let it." He gritted furiously as his throat worked, his eyes pricking with tears he refused to shed, but he could feel the life draining away faster from her than he expected. "Isa... please, don’t do this to me. Don’t leave me. I will be nothing without you; you are my light and my world... don’t fucking leave me." He cupped her pale cheeks with bloody hands, and shook her face as if to wake her up.
When there was no response from her, Rohan opened his link and shouted at Rav, "Where is the fucking doctor?!"