"He's born! He's here!"
Bella raced onto the third-floor terrace, shouting the news that sent everyone wild with excitement, then stopped abruptly at its edge.
The dense crowd below stunned her for a moment, but only a moment. She gripped the terrace railing and continued shouting down at the thousands of expectant eyes.
"Mother and baby are safe! It's a boy! It's him! The boss's child!"
The moment those words fell, the crowd of over a thousand went silent for nearly three seconds.
It was absolute silence, without a single sound. The sheer force of it almost robbed Bella of the ability to breathe!
Then, after that brief silence, Abel and Arturo exchanged a sudden glance in the crowd!
Next, Abel stepped forward, flung both hands into the air, and shouted.
"Our prince is born!"
"Woohoo!"
"Haha!"
"Fantastic!"
"This is so cool!"
"Your Highness!"
"Our future!"
"Humanity's future!"
"I can have children too!"
"God, she's so brave!"
"Humanity will prevail!"
"For tomorrow!"
"For the prince! For Lady Nikita! For Gavin!"
"For the Alliance!"
"And the future!!!"
The cheering finally reached its peak. Those deafening, overlapping cheers even reached the weakened Nikita inside the soundproof room.
She licked her dry lips, glanced toward the window, then managed a smile and turned back to Adriana, who was wiping the blood from her lower body.
"Ade, you shouldn't be doing this. You're due too, darling."
"Haha, don't say something so silly, Niki. Don't forget, just yesterday you were holding your belly while helping me bathe. You were due then too, and judging by today, you were in much more danger than I was."
Adriana gently pressed Nikita's lower abdomen, trying to clear away the remaining postpartum discharge without hurting her.
Touched, Nikita pressed Adriana's hand, then turned to Doctor Jack, who was holding