Love System Redemption

Chapter 605: She Heard Me

"...Somto made sure that, in the event of his death, everything would continue smoothly.

"Of course, it's never exactly the swithout him, but Carl and | have been helping to keep things running. We

didn’t plan a formal funeral for Somto at first, because you couldn't cto terms with what happened. But... |

think it's twe do. It's been six months already. If he were still alive, the search party would have found him."

Arthur hesitated, his voice dropping. "I probably shouldn't be telling you this... but Carl said you can’t hear

anything..."

He paused again, eyes unfocused, though his gaze remained on the monitors tracking Nnenna’s heart rate,

which flickered slightly with the unspoken tension.

"They found pieces of the clothes he was wearing that day... below the cliff... just a week ago," Arthur finally

said, his voice tight.

He swallowed hard, visibly weighing each word. "The forensics... they say..." He trailed off, unable to continue

immediately, before forcing the words out. "...that his body must have been eaten by a wild animal."

"When you called me, | thought... | thought it was about the news, maybe someone had leaked it. But no. Your

reason for calling... it was much worse." Arthur's voice trembled slightly, though he tried to steady it.

"You have no idea how glad | am that they got to you on time. If | had made the smistake | made with

Somto... | don’t even want to think about it. I just... | don’t know. If we had found him sooner, maybe his body

would have at least been intact for a proper burial. | am so thankful... so thankful that God didn’t letgo

through that again. That day, when you called... | believe He letget help to you in time."

Arthur paused, blinking, trying to collect himself. "Nnenna... we don’t even have a body to bury for Somto’s

funeral. No place to go, no place to say he was laid to rest."

His voice softened, almost a whisper, heavy with grief. His eyes, unfocused, stared at nothing in particular. He

didn’t notice the monitors, the steady pulse that had been calm, now climbing rapidly, spiking with each shallow

breath Nnenna took.

Suddenly-

Beep! Beep! Beep!

The shrill alarms tore through the room, yanking Arthur out of his haze. His head snapped to the monitors,

Nnenna’s vitals were crashing.

"Carl!" His voice was sharp, raw.

The door burst open before he could move. Nurses and doctors flooded in, equipment rattling as they wheeled it

to her bedside. But the moment Carl stepped inside, the chaos bent around him. He didn’t raise his voice, but his

presence pulled every eye.

"Start compressions. Push one of epi, now. Oxygen, full flow. Prepare the pads. Clear that line," he ordered,

already at Nnenna’s side.

They moved. No hesitation. No one argued. He was the anchor, and everyone knew it.

Arthur stepped back on his own, silent, cold on the outside. His eyes, though, never left Nnenna. His jaw locked,

hands curled at his sides, but he didn’t interfere. He would not risk disturbing the rhythm Carl had built around

her.

"Clear!" Carl barked. The defibrillator whined and shocked. Nnenna’s body jolted. He didn’t flinch, he had done

this countless times, but his eyes flickered, a storm hidden under calm waters.

"Again. Another milligram. Keep compressions going."

Minutes stretched like hours. Sweat trickled down Carl's temple, but his tone never wavered. Calm. Steady. In

control. And yet, every beat that failed to cback clawed deeper at him.

This wasn’t just medicine.

This was his little sister slipping away under his hands.

Arthur stood frozen at the wall, watching the line on the monitor stutter, then flatten, then twitch again. He

looked coldly calm, but the faintest tremor in his clenched fists gave him away.

"Con... con," Carl muttered under his breath, too quiet for anyone but Arthur to catch.

Fifteen grueling minutes later, the monitor beeped steady again. A rhythm. Weak, but there. The room let out a

breath, but Carl didn’t. He leaned closer, checking, confirming, unwilling to believe until he saw her chest rise on

its own.

"She's stable," one of the other doctors said, relief in his tone. Then, carefully, "But given the twithout

oxygen, she may have neurological deficits—"

"Enough," Carl cut him off, his voice sharp. His shoulders stayed steady, but his eyes burned. He didn’t want

those words spoken, not now.

Arthur's gaze flicked from the doctor to Carl, reading the silence. "What's going on?" His voice was low, even, but

the weight behind it was unmistakable.

Carl didn’t answer. He kept his eyes on Nnenna, his lips pressed in a thin line, his silence heavy with a pain he

couldn't voice.

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He couldn't let her go, not even if peace waited on the other side.

After a few seconds, Carl forced himself to steady. His voice cout clipped but firm.

"Run every test. Figure out why this happened. She was stable half an hour ago, how did she crash so fast? |

want answers, and | want them before the end of the day."

"She heard me."

Arthur's voice cut through the room like glass.

Carl froze mid sentence, turning toward him. "What?"

"She heard me," Arthur repeated, his tone steady but certain.

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