516 A Heart-stopping Momen

It was as if time stood still in the hallway the moment Felix and Parker were shoulder to shoulder. Felix's mouth became dry and the sudden urge to flee washed over him. If it wasn't for the door frame catching his weight, he probably would have already fallen. There was just something eerie about this man that he could not explain. He had been deployed to wars in the past that was scarier than this, but he couldn't deny the feeling of something evil that emanated from that man.

Through his periphery, he saw the infamous Parker continue to walk towards the elevators without turning back. Felix had to force himself, willing a foot up to take the first step into the senator's room, his hand still tightly clutching the medical chart. 

As soon as he got inside the room, he closed the door behind him. He steadied his breathing and turned to the bed only to see the senator with her hand reaching out to him. Felix instinctively rushed to her side and pulled down his mask as he tried to read her facial expression. She looked extremely uncomfortable and had shortness of breath as she clutched her chest. 

"Senator!" he exclaimed as he rushed to her side and hurriedly pressed the emergency call button above her bed.

She grabbed the front of his shirt and pulled him towards her while she desperately tried to speak but words barely came out of her mouth.

"What? I can't…" Felix tried to understand what she was trying to say, but it was so hard to comprehend while she was wheezing so heavily.

The door burst open and a few medical staff came inside the room just as the senator lost her grip from his shirt and then her hand fell. In a blink, the heart monitor made a long beep at the same time that it showed a flat line. 

"Code Blue! Code Blue!" said one of the male staff as he immediately dashed forward and started doing chest compressions on the senator and tried to revive her.

The once quiet room became complete chaos.

...

Meanwhile at the safe house a couple of minutes ago…

Katherine, Damien, Chris, Gus, and Styles were all stunned by what Felix was doing. He had just disobeyed orders and acted on his own.

"Felix," Damien tried to call him but all they could hear was a scratching sound from the earpiece brushing against the fabric in Felix's pocket as the call was still connected.

"Styles, show us the security feed!" said Katherine.

"Already on it." Styles quickly pulled up the live surveillance of the hospital and sent it to their laptop. They looked for Felix until they spotted him just leaving a room dressed in a white coat and headed towards the senator's private room.

Katherine gasped when she saw Parker through the monitor. Seeing him with Felix in one frame made her clench her hand so hard that her knuckles turned white.

None of them spoke and all they could do was watch. The atmosphere was tense and although they were relieved when Parker left without suspecting Felix, their hearts were still racing as the latter entered the senator's room and closed the door, so they were unable to see anything.

It had only been ten seconds since Felix entered the private room when they saw a team of medical staff rush towards the senator's room.

"What's going on?" Katherine wondered, her hand subconsciously gripping Damien's sleeve.

"Code Blue! Code Blue!" the voice of the staff sounded through the speaker of Damien's phone and their eyes darted on it. They couldn't see what was going on but the sounds they heard through the call were alarming.

In the next second, they saw Felix leave the room, heading towards the fire exit. 

…

Felix sprinted and removed the doctor's coat on him but he pulled the mask back in place to cover his face. Soon, he reached the building's south exit. Not knowing how he managed to flee the scene and reached the ground floor, he panted heavily and leaned against the wall.

A car horn beeped twice, making him look up to find Noah in a black chevy waving him over. Noah rolled down the window and shouted, "Get in!"

Pushing himself off the wall, Felix dashed towards the car and slammed the door shut. Then, the vehicle sped off and joined the traffic.

…

Back at the safehouse...

Damien had received a call from Noah telling him that they were on their way to Esmea. It had been an hour since that call and the team anxiously waited for more news. 

Katherine and Damien sat on the sofa while the others were at the dining table. Her stomach rolled when the scene from the hospital's camera footage she saw through the screen earlier flashed in her mind. She felt helpless and anxious that she couldn't do anything. They hadn't heard any news from Styles yet, so they didn't know what happened in the hospital after Felix left.

A buzzing sound caught their attention and their heads turned to the phone on the table—it was Katherine's. Reaching for her phone, she answered the call as soon as she saw who was calling. "It's Styles," she announced, and then Chris and Gus came over.

"You're on speaker," she said.

It took Styles a few seconds to begin as he didn't know how to break the news. When he was ready, he took a deep breath and informed them, "I just found out… Senator Jones died of cardiac arrest at 5:31 pm today."

All of them exchanged looks. They had already anticipated this news but it was still shocking to hear. Damien checked his watch and let out a sigh before he muttered in a low voice, "She died after Felix left."