Dear Ex Wife Please take me back by The Every Woman

Chapter 123

ATHENA

The shot rings out.

I brace for the pain, for the heat of the bullet tearing through my flesh.

But it never comes.

I'm still standing.

I'm still breathing.

Frozen.

My heart slams against my ribs as the world slows around me.

And then-

"No!"

A body crashes into mine, shoving me hard to the side.

I stumble, catching myself against the edge of a table.

That's when I hear it, a guttural gasp, the sound of someone choking on breath. The thud of a body hitting marble.

Blood splatters.


I look down my body and realize it's not mine.

My eyes widen as I turn.

Someone took the bullet.

For me.

From the corner of my eye, I can see Leah screaming, thrashing, wild-eyed like a mad woman.. But the officers are on her now, four of them tackling her to the ground, ripping the gun from her hands.

My ears ring.

The voices fade.

name, but it sounds

begins to blur, hitting me

A gun.

Shoot.

Not me.

look to the side and see Sloane lying in


scream as I rush

he reaches me. I only shake my head as I push through the people

drop to my knees beside her, blood soaking into the

my God!" I hear Ariana's

I whisper, my hands already moving on

There's so much blood.

Too much.

up at me. Her

one moves. "Give her fucking space! Dammit!" Alex's deep voice booms and that does it. The people crowding us stumble back, startled by

doctor in

the side of her dress, my fingers moving fast over the wound. It's just

shot near the T12 region," I mutter to myself.

drops beside me, breathless, his hands already pulling out the gauze and a clotting agent


has it. Right now, I'm just grateful he's

says, his voice shaking

long time and this is the first time

her vitals. "The pulse is weak, breathing is

He says to himself as he puts on

by clamping what I can, and prep her for the ambulance

stretcher!" lan screams toward

seconds later, loading her onto

me come in-" I begin to climb into the ambulance after

gently. "You're emotionally involved.

be. I'll be damned if I won't do the operation myself." lan

lan

grips me like a vice


Not now.

"Dr. Quinn-"

can't waste Any moment!" I say and the medic

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