A Matter of Wife and Love
Chapter 193

Chapter 193

Someone's calling. It's Julia!

Amelie glanced in that direction only to see Julia tottering over in a rush with her twisted arm.

"No! No! Stop it! B-Bria is at the other end!" Tears wet her paled face as she shook her head vigorously. She was on the brink of losing her mind. Everyone's expression changed at that instant. Julia's reaction made Amelie's heart sink to the pit of her stomach. "What happened? Where's Bria?"

"Why did you let the kid in? Can't you keep an eye on a kid?" Someone from the crows reproached.

Frantic and remorse filled Julia to the brim as she bit her lower lip. "I... People were jostling around and she ran in. I-I'm terribly sorry!"

She then sprinted in another direction with wobbly legs, shouting Bria's name again and again. Meanwhile, Amelie broke into a cold sweat. It was as if someone had taken away a part of her; the hollow was painful.

"What happened?" asked Leo, who was undoing the safety gears.

Samuel approached him with a somber face. Instead of words, he merely shot a look at Leo.

Leo took the hint as he whispered to Amelie, "I'll take a look."

When the men were about to leave, Amelie suddenly piped up determinedly, "Samuel, just spill it."

He hesitated, but she added in a quivering voice, "Bria is my daughter. I have the right to know what happened."

Nothing hurt her more than knowing Bria was in danger.

Despite the reluctance, Samuel recounted seriously, "Julia's arm is dislocated because of the jostling crowd, and Bria seized the chance to look for you..."

His expression darkened at that point. "When they lifted the pillar, it shifted and fell onto her. "

"It fell on her?!" Amelie recalled Bria's scream. Was that because of the fallen pillar?

The sudden plight spurred vehement emotions in her veins; her lungs shrank and squeezed out a cough of blood.

Uff!

"Elie!" he shrieked.

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Leo's brows knitted tightly. The second Amelie coughed up blood, his heart squeezed and even his body shuddered. He reached out in an attempt to support her, but he could not touch her because she was stuck!

"I'll check on the situation." As Bria's father, no one was in more pain than Leo to hear her getting hurt.

"I'll be back." He glanced at Amelie while rising to his feet before leaving.

On the other side, there was a throng of people surrounding with the same grim expression. Julia was not in the state of mind to treat her dislocated arm. She was kneeling and wailing Bria's name.

The crowd made way for Leo upon noticing his arrival. His gaze first landed upon Bria's figure, which was laying underneath a huge pillar in a pool of fragments.

It was a few times larger than her body, burying her lower half. Her eyes were tightly shut, and her arms drooped listlessly.

The doctor, who was checking on her situation, removed the stethoscope after Leo arrived. "She's breathing, but seriously injured. If we don't get her out right away, she might be in danger."

"This pillar is huge, and its position is tricky. We can only I it up from one side with the machines in our hands. Naturally, the other end will have to bear the extra weight and die." The commander of the rescue team approached them with a solemn expression. It was heart-wrenching for him to tell the cruel truth. Lives were at stake.

However, time was of the essence. Once the racks were broken, Amelie would be dead. As for Bria...

If they could not make the call within ten minutes by choosing either one, both of them would die! Leo had never been in such a quandary.

One was his daughter, and the other was Amelie.

The circumstances shocked Julia to the core. As her mind went blank, she kept repeating the same thing. "What are we gonna do? What are we gonna do?"

"We must make a decision right now or we won't be able to save either one!" urged the commander because every second counted.

At this moment, Samuel came up to them with a serious announcement. "Elie told us to save Bria first."

Amelie's decision made Leo frown, yet he displayed no sort of expression.

Meanwhile, the deranged Julia ran over and toss herself before Amelie. "No, no! You can't do that. There must be a way, Elie. There has to be a way!"

Amelie watched Julia as she wanted to wipe off those tears for her, but she couldn't. She shut her eyes and her eyelashes fluttered.

No one could welcome his death with open arms; she was not a heroine and the fear bore the same weight on her. Still, Bria was her biological daughter, so as the mother, how could Amelie bear to let Bria die?

"Don't fret, Julia. Luck's on my side. Heaven won't accept me." She masked the intense fear to assure Julia.

Julia shook her head vigorously, for no one would gamble when it was a matter of life and death. Speaking of which, she was the very person to blame because she failed to look after Bria.

"I'm with you, Elie. If we don't survive this, we still have each other's company." She wiped off her tears before crawling underneath the pillar.

After that, Leo came. He looked at Julia indifferently before gazing at Amelie. "Don't worry, I will keep both you and Bria safe."

Amelie raised her gaze onto his eyes which exuded determination and certainty. Strangely enough, it gave her a sense of security. In spite of the lack of explanation, she had the hunch that he would fulfill his promise.

"Okay." She nodded without saying much.

Leo stared at Amelie deeply before leaving. Not long after, a machinery voice penetrated the air as the commander gave his orders.

The pillar slowly yet miraculously levitated in the air upon the string of commands. Noticing the shifting object, the surrounding people hurriedly pulled Amelie out and Julia crawled out herself.

Both of them then dashed in Bria's direction simultaneously. On the other side, the medical team carried the little girl away from the pillar and ran outside in full pelt with an IV drip.

Amelie wanted to catch up with them, but her frail body did not allow that; she flopped onto the ground after barely running a few steps.

Julia, who noticed Samuel, helped Amelie up and then rushed to him. The anxious Amelie almost tossed herself at him. "How's Bria? Is she okay?"

Another arm pulled her into an embrace before she touched Samuel. The warmth wrapped around her tightly as though she was a long-lost treasure.

"Bria's safe. She didn't suffer any secondary injuries from the rescue." The familiar voice pulled her back to her senses, and she finally realized who was hugging her.