Chapter 48

Lumi

The power he thought he had over me, the walls he spent weeks building just to make me suffer, had been completely shattered into dust in less than five minutes.

"Get out," I said, my voice barely above a whisper, but it echoed clearly in the quiet hospital room.

Callum snapped his head toward me, his teeth clenched so hard I could hear them grinding.

"Lumi, you think you’ve won something here? You don’t know the first thing about what’s wrong with him. You running away to America is the reason he’s in this bed in the first place!"

"I said, get out!" I yelled, my grip on Theo’s tiny hand tightening.

Before Callum could take a step toward me, Neve’s boyfriend slid smoothly into his path, his tall frame completely blocking him from my sight.

He didn’t raise his hands or his voice, but the look in his eyes was so cold it made Callum instantly take a step back toward the hallway.

"You heard the lady, Mr. Reed," Neve’s boyfriend said, his voice deadly calm. "You need to leave the pediatric wing now. If you make another sound near this child, the next paperwork we’ll file won’t just be for custody...it will be a restraining order."

With one final, hateful glare directed at me over his shoulder, Callum turned on his heel and stormed out of the room, his heavy shoes slamming against the floorboards as he disappeared down the corridor. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

The transit authorities and the security guard quickly followed behind him, leaving the four of us alone in the quiet room.

The moment the door slid shut, the heavy, suffocating tension left my chest. I let out a shaky breath I didn’t even realize I was holding, my shoulders slumping with pure relief.

Neve immediately walked over to the side of the bed, dropping her bag onto the plastic visitor’s chair and wrapping her arms around me. "We told you we’d handle it, didn’t we? Nobody touches our boy, and nobody keeps you from him."

"How... how did you guys manage to get a UK court order signed in twenty minutes?" I asked, looking up at her and then at her boyfriend, my head spinning with confusion. "We aren’t even from this country. I didn’t think it was possible."

Neve’s boyfriend gave a small, quiet laugh, slipping his hands into his pockets.

"Let’s just say Ren has very deep ties with some of the top international legal firms in London.

When he called them from the airport lobby, they had an emergency judge pull the file before Callum’s lawyers even knew what was happening. We just had to wait for the official digital stamp to come through."

My heart did a strange, heavy flutter at the mention of Ren’s name.

He’d already made plans before even getting here, like he knew what to expect and was ready to get down the obstacles for me.

I looked toward the closed door, wondering where he was right now.

He was down the hall, completely alone with the head doctor, risking everything and using every single piece of his personal influence just to save my son.

He was doing all of this for me, even after the mess we left behind in New York.

Before I could say anything, the door slid open again with a soft hiss.

Ren walked back into the room. His broad shoulders were squared, but the rigid, furious expression he had carried earlier had faded into a deep, intense focus.

He looked at Neve and her boyfriend, giving them a brief nod of approval, letting them know he knew Callum had been dealt with. Then, his dark eyes settled completely on me.

He stepped closer to the bedside, his expression dead serious. He didn’t speak aloud, but his eyes locked onto mine with an unshakeable intensity.

"The head doctor has agreed to let us transfer Theo to a private medical centre." He reached into his coat pocket and showed me an official transfer letter he had secured from the head doctor.

I pushed myself up from the armchair, my legs still a little shaky, but my mind was completely made up. I trusted him with my life, and right now, I trusted him with my son’s life too.

"What did you see in the raw scans?" I asked, stepping closer to him, keeping my voice low so it wouldn’t carry past the door.

"Was it... what you thought it was?" He looked down at me, a serious, unshakeable look in his eyes as he slowly nodded.

"The genetic acceleration is definitely happening, Lumi. His inner Alpha blood is trying to wake up, but because he’s so young, his human body doesn’t know how to channel the heat.

If we leave him in this public hospital under standard human treatment, they will keep trying to pump him with regular medicine that will only suppress his system until it gives out entirely." He paused, stepping closer until I could feel the steady warmth radiating from his chest.

"I know a specialized physician who understands this lineage. We just need to stabilize the fever and help Theo’s body accept the transition without hurting him.

But we need to move him right now before Callum tries to bring a different set of lawyers to block the transfer."

I looked back at Theo, whose small chest was rising and falling in short, shallow breaths under the soft light of the lamp.

I didn’t care about the rules anymore, and I didn’t care about what the human medical books said.

"Do it," I said, looking back up into Ren’s dark eyes, my voice completely firm. "Move him wherever you need to. I’m ready."

The moment the words left my mouth, Ren nodded once, a look of grim determination settling over his handsome features.

He stepped toward the door and opened it slightly, signaling to a nurse who had been waiting quietly out in the corridor.

She walked into the room carrying a small medical tray. Without saying a word, she began moving around Theo’s bed with quick, practiced hands.

She gently detached the heavy monitor leads from his chest and removed the thin oxygen tube from beneath his tiny nose, leaving only a single IV drip attached to the back of his hand to keep him hydrated and sustained during the journey.

I watched her every move, my stomach twisting in a knot, but the steady presence of Ren standing right beside me kept me grounded.

Once the tubes were cleared, two paramedics pushed a mobile hospital gurney into the room, unlocking the side rails.

Ren leaned down over the mattress, lifting Theo into his massive arms with an incredible, breathtaking gentleness.

He laid him carefully onto the transport bed, wrapping the thick blankets snugly around his small, shivering frame before the nurse secured the safety straps.

We didn’t waste another second. The medical team pushed the gurney down the long, quiet hallway of the pediatric wing, bypassing the front desk completely.

We took a private service elevator down to the basement level, where the bright morning light spilled into a locked loading dock. Waiting right there, with its back doors wide open and its engine humming quietly, was a private ambulance.

The medical transport team quickly secured Theo’s gurney inside the vehicle. I didn’t even think twice...I climbed right into the back of the ambulance, sliding onto the narrow bench seat directly next to my son so I could grab his warm hand again. Ren leaned in, his dark eyes locking onto mine for a brief, reassuring second.

"We will be right behind you," he whispered firmly.

He closed the heavy ambulance doors, shutting out the cool morning air. As the vehicle pulled out of the hospital bay and switched on its silent emergency lights, I looked out the tinted rear window.

True to his word, the large, dark SUV carrying Ren, Neve, and her boyfriend pulled out right behind us, following our tail closely through the streets.

The twenty-minute drive felt like an absolute eternity. I kept my head down, my eyes fixed entirely on Theo’s pale face, rubbing my thumb over his small knuckles and praying with every single breath I took.

Outside, the busy city center slowly began to fade away, replaced by quieter, wealthier neighborhoods with large trees and high stone walls.

Finally, the ambulance made a sharp turn through a pair of massive wrought-iron gates and came to a sudden, smooth stop.

The moment the vehicle parked, the rear doors were violently thrown open from the outside.

I blinked against the bright morning sun, and my breath caught in my throat. We had pulled up to a breathtaking, luxurious building made of gleaming white marble that looked more like a grand private estate than any hospital I had ever seen.

And they were already waiting for us.

Before the paramedic could even step down, a specialized medical team dressed in crisp, dark uniforms rushed forward to meet the ambulance.

There was no confusion, no waiting around, and no paperwork to sign. They moved like a perfectly timed machine, their eyes sharp and fully aware of exactly who was inside.

The lead doctor stepped right up to the doors, his gaze shifting from Theo to me with an expression of calm, absolute authority.

"We have everything ready, Ms. Lumi," he said softly, his voice carrying a strange, powerful warmth that instantly made my inner instincts relax. "Let’s get your son inside."