Filed To Story: Finding the Secret Daddy for My Baby Novel
“You, of course.” He held her hand. She still looks sleepy. He cooed, “Get some sleep. I’m not leaving.”
When Anastasia woke up again, she saw him crouched by her bed and staring at the bed beside her. To be precise, he was staring at the little one with the pink shirt under the white blanket. The baby had lustrous hair, and her face was the size of a fist. Her features were tiny, but she could see that the baby was beautiful.
“She looks like you, doesn’t she?” Elliot chuckled.
The wound was still throbbing, but just looking at the baby filled Anastasia with joy. She actually wanted to get pregnant once more.
Still, she was exhausted. My job’s done. “You look after her. I’m getting some sleep.”
“Sure.” Elliot looked at her gently. The baby’s fists were closed. She was so delicate, he wouldn’t even breathe loudly in case she was spooked.
The nurse was in awe. She’s the young miss of the Presgraves, huh? I bet she’ll grow up into a gorgeous lady. Her parents are beautiful, and so is her brother. The kids are gonna grow up to be drop–dead gorgeous.
Silence had fallen upon the ward. Elliot was holding a sleeping baby in his arms. He just couldn’t take his eyes off her. She’s my second child.
It was four in the morning, so the sky was dark. Six black cars were traveling through the street. A man in the backseat of one car was resting his eyes. His assistant, on the other hand, was going through the files despite how exhausted he was. The few international cases were forcing them to stay awake and making them feel tense.
All of a sudden, a blanket of fog appeared out of nowhere, covering the whole street. The bodyguards slowed down in response. This fog was too thick to be a natural occurrence. Someone or something was waiting in the shadows for them. “We got a situation here. Stay alert,” the head bodyguard said.
The car came to a sudden halt, waking the man in the backseat. He opened his eyes. The bodyguard was telling him what happened. This sudden fog was no ordinary phenomenon. The whole street was clear just now, and there shouldn’t be any fog at night in this weather.
Just then, a blinding flash of light assailed them. Something crashed into the car in front of them, and a great explosion happened.
“It’s a rocket launcher! Protect the VP!” Elijah shouted.
The bodyguard got out of the car. Elijah and Ren followed a moment later. They were escorted away with the bodyguard shielding them. Less than ten seconds after they were gone, a rocket launcher sent the car behind them flying up into the air. It fell back down and rolled a few times on the road.
Right at the moment of explosion, one bodyguard came to Ren’s rescue. He kept Ren underneath him and took the full force of the shockwave himself. The shockwave rippled through the street, and everyone felt blood rushing up their heads.
Elijah knocked his forehead on something, and it drew blood. His ears were buzzing, but still he went and searched for Ren.
“Sir!”
The bodyguard protecting Ren was hurt by the shockwave. He turned around, and Ren held the wobbling man. He told Elijah, “Come here and help me!”
Elijah couldn’t hear a thing, but still he went and held the bodyguard up. The other men formed a semicircle in front of the three of them and retreated backward while protecting them.
The fog was still too thick for them to see anything. The bodyguards had nothing but their hearing to help them discern where danger was coming from, and then silence fell. The fog was like a maze. The only thing visible was the burning car. The air was filled with the stench of ash.
Just then, they heard the cries of a girl coming out of nowhere. She was running toward them, calling out to her father. “Daddy? Daddy, where are you?”
It was a three–year–old girl. She was frantically running on the street. Ren’s heart went out for her.
“There’s a girl! Save her!” Elijah shouted.
“This could be a trap.” The bodyguards pointed their guns at the girl.
Ren ordered, “Do not hurt her.”
The bodyguards let go of the trigger. It was then the girl saw them, and she came right up to them. “Help me, mister. You gotta help me.”
One of the bodyguards darted ahead and held the girl. He checked up on her and shouted, “She’s fine!”
“Bring her here,” Ren ordered.
The bodyguard brought the girl to Ren. Elijah tried to hold her, but the sight of his bloodstained face made her bawl even louder. Ren spread his arms. “Here, let me hold you.”
The girl finally let Ren hold him. His bodyguards were still looking around them. They knew this girl was nothing but a pawn of the enemy. This was not the time to let their guard down.
Ren took the girl over from his bodyguard. He then saw a red mark flashing on her back. It was the mark that a sniper was aiming straight at her.
“Look out! We got a sniper!” Ren roared. He swiveled around with the kid in his arms the next second. The red dot that was pointing at the girl was now aimed at his shoulder. Just a moment later, a bullet flew through the fog and pierced Ren’s shoulder. He staggered forward due to the impact, but still he didn’t let the child go.
Elijah quickly came to him. “The VP’s hit!”
It was at that exact moment, the bodyguards knew the girl was just an object for the enemy to pinpoint their location. They held up their shields right away and stood around Elijah and Ren. They could hear bullets flying through the air from all directions.
Elijah wiped the blood off his face and took the child away forcibly. Ren wobbled a little, and he held Elijah’s shoulder. “I’m fine.” He was breathing heavily.
“Reinforcements are on their way, but it’ll take them ten minutes.”
The fog was then blown away. They could hear the roar of a helicopter above them. The assassination ended in failure, but the killers were long gone. The street was filled with shards of car parts. The car was still burning even after almost fifteen minutes, but if someone was still in there, they would have died of heat and suffocation.
This assassination must have been a plan long in the making.
The fog and that girl were just tools for the plan. A high–tech sensor had been stuck to the girl’s back. Her function was to tell the enemy where Ren and his men were in the fog, then they would start firing.
They knew Ren would never stand by and watch a child die in front of him. He would save her, of course, and that was the weakness they used against him.
The night was still going on, and Ren’s wound was still bleeding, drenching his suit in blood. Elijah and the bodyguards took him to the hospital right away.
Ren was starting to get groggy on the way. The blood loss was robbing his consciousness. Right before he blacked out, he told Elijah, “Do not tell Ruka about this.”
Elijah watched as he was taken into the operating room. He was still worried, and he called Scarlet.
“What? Ren was ambushed?” Scarlet and Walter rushed to the hospital right away.
Six of Ren’s trusted men had gathered outside the operating room. They were all powerful officials and Ren’s most powerful allies.
Richard opened his eyes the moment he heard his phone vibrate. He picked up his mother’s call, and once he heard what happened, he got out of bed quietly and swiftly made his way to the hospital.
About two hours later, the doctors emerged from the operating room looking exhausted, but they smiled at the people waiting outside. “The bullet was extracted. It didn’t hit his vitals, but he needs to rest.”
Everyone heaved a sigh of relief. Scarlet was almost crying a moment ago. Now, she buried her head in her husband’s arms and shed tears of relief. Her heart felt like it would burst from her chest.
The ambush happened out of the blue. It was harrowing, so to speak.
Elijah was told to work on the investigation. Everyone involved would be interrogated as well.
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