Chapter 027: Alive

Some minutes after the ambulance sped into the hospital facility with the injured body of Lyra, an immediate frenzy ensued.

The attending doctors were running about in there, with their supporting nurses trailing behind them to the ward.

The man who had made the emergency call sat in one corner of the waiting room with his knees drawn up. He was praying silently for Lyra, wishing for her to be okay. He looked so disturbed that he could barely look upwards throughout the first 10 minutes they arrived. He could barely even answer the phone vibrating continuously in his pocket.

After some moments of waiting in suspense, one of the doctors rushed out again from the ward and trudged towards the man.

Finally, the man readjusted himself and looked up with expectant eyes.

"So how is the girl doctor?" He asked as soon as the physician was close enough.

"She needs surgery." The doctor replied sharply, and his voice appeared to have gone hoarse from shouting out instructions to the orderlies b