Chapter 6 - Blood on the Roses
VIRAL TITLE: A Birth in the Burning Basement! Will the Heir Survive? 🍼🔥
Fire spread instantly across the dry wooden beams of the basement floor.
Screams rang out in the pitch black as Victoria’s henchmen panicked, scattering toward the narrow exit. Ethan kicked Victoria’s gun away and scrambled toward Iris.
“Iris! Can you walk?” he yelled over the roaring flames.
“I can’t!” she cried out, clutching her stomach. “The baby is coming NOW!”
Ethan didn’t hesitate. He scooped Iris into his arms, carrying her through the smoke and rising heat. Arthur Vance tried to block the door with a crowbar, but Ethan delivered a brutal flying kick to Arthur’s chest, sending the corrupt lawyer crashing into the burning debris.
Ethan kicked open the heavy iron door and carried Iris out into the night air of the rose garden.
Rain poured down, soaking them instantly. He laid her down on a bench near the fountain, the red roses illuminated by the fiery glow escaping the basement windows.
“Push, Iris! You have to push!” Ethan yelled, holding her hand tightly.
With a final, desperate scream that pierced the stormy night, Iris pushed.
The cry of a newborn baby echoed across the estate.
Ethan wrapped the crying infant in his suit jacket, his eyes welling with tears. “It’s a boy… Iris, it’s a healthy baby boy!”
Iris smiled weakly, reaching up to touch the child’s tiny face. “Name him… Leo… after Maya’s favorite flower…”
Before Ethan could answer, a shadow loomed over them.
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Victoria emerged from the burning mansion, her face blackened by soot, her eyes insane with rage, holding a heavy iron wrench elevated high in the air.
“If I can’t have the fortune,” she shrieked, “NO ONE CAN!”
