Chapter 5: The Donor Heart Was Never Stolen... It Was Sold
The hospital erupted into chaos.
Doctors searched every operating room.
Nurses checked every refrigerator.
Security guards locked every exit.
The donor heart had vanished.
Emma had less than ninety minutes left to live.
Daniel collapsed into a chair, burying his face in his hands.
Lily sat beside him, clutching her teddy bear.
"Daddy..."
"Is Mommy going to become an angel?"
Daniel couldn't answer.
Across the hallway, Victor's phone suddenly rang.
His head of security spoke only one sentence.
"Sir... we found the ambulance."
Victor's eyes narrowed.
"What ambulance?"
"The one that transported the donor heart."
"It never went to another hospital."
"It stopped inside a private underground parking garage."
Victor immediately ordered every security team to move.
Within twenty minutes...
Luxury SUVs surrounded an abandoned medical warehouse on the outskirts of the city.
Inside...
Doctors wearing stolen hospital uniforms were preparing a black-market transplant.
A billionaire from overseas had secretly paid fifty million dollars for Emma's donor heart.
The surgery was scheduled to begin in less than fifteen minutes.
Victor kicked the operating-room door open.
"Nobody move!"
The room exploded into panic.
One surgeon grabbed the transport container and tried to escape through the back exit.
Daniel tackled him to the ground.
The silver container rolled across the floor.
Everyone stopped breathing.
Victor carefully opened it.
The donor heart was still inside.
Perfectly preserved.
The surgeons were arrested within minutes.
But the nightmare wasn't over.
During interrogation, one doctor laughed.
"You still don't understand."
Victor stared at him.
"Understand what?"
The doctor smiled.
"We didn't choose Emma's heart by accident."
"Someone paid us to make sure she never survived."
Victor's face turned ice cold.
"Who?"
The surgeon looked directly at him.
"The money came from a trust fund..."
"...that was created by your mother."
Everyone froze.
Victoria Harrison had ordered Emma's death...
Even after being arrested.
She had planned everything months in advance.
Victor immediately rushed back to the hospital with the recovered donor heart.
Doctors began the emergency transplant.
Eight endless hours passed.
Daniel never left the waiting room.
Lily fell asleep with her head on his shoulder.
Finally...
The operating-room doors opened.
The lead surgeon removed his mask.
A smile appeared on his exhausted face.
"The surgery was successful."
"Emma is alive."
Daniel burst into tears.
Victor leaned against the wall, overwhelmed with relief.
For the first time in years...
It felt like their nightmare was finally ending.
But as Emma slowly opened her eyes in the recovery room, she whispered just four words that terrified everyone.
"She's still not finished..."
Daniel frowned.
"Who?"
Emma stared toward the window, trembling.
"Victoria..."
"...was never the mastermind."
Silence filled the room.
Because if Victoria had only been following someone else's orders...
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Then the real enemy was still free.
And they were already watching the hospital.
