He looked back up again, Jasper had already started the car.
The vehicle drove away smoothly, disappearing onto the road while Elias stood there staring after it with an increasingly unpleasant expression.
Elias stared at it for a second, his jaw tight with frustration and displeasure. His jaw flexed hard.
Finally, he turned sharply toward Felix.
“Drive to the hospital. Something’s wrong with Bianca.”
Without waiting another second, he strode down the stairs quickly while Felix hurried after him.
***
The moment Elias stepped into the VIP hospital room, the sharp smell of antiseptic filled the air.
Inside, Bianca sat beside a hospital bed where a pale young woman was lying unconscious.
The woman looked fragile and weak, no older than twenty-five.
An IV was attached to her arm, and several monitors beeped quietly beside the bed.
Bianca herself looked exhausted.
There was cotton taped to the inside of her arm where blood had clearly been drawn recently. Her makeup looked slightly smudged, and her face was pale as she sat quietly beside the bed.
The second she saw Elias enter, her eyes immediately reddened.
“Elias…”
She quickly pushed herself to her feet and hurried toward him.
The moment she reached him, she grabbed onto his arm tightly before leaning weakly against him.
“I’m so tired…” she whispered softly, her voice fragile and weak. “My whole body feels sore…”
Elias instinctively lowered his gaze toward her.
Bianca pressed one hand weakly against her forehead before continuing softly,
“But I knew how important Zoe is…”
She looked toward the unconscious woman on the bed before biting her lip gently.
“I was in the middle of a meeting, but the moment I heard she needed blood, I rushed over immediately.”
Her fingers curled weakly against his sleeve.
“The doctor said she needed it urgently… so I donated as much as my body could handle.”
She closed her eyes weakly and rested her forehead against Elias’s shoulder.
“I feel so weak right now…”
“Thank you for helping her,” he said quietly.
His tone softened noticeably.
Bianca nodded weakly before leaning against him more heavily as though she barely had the strength to stand.