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.

but it sounds like it's

hitting

A gun.

Shoot.

Not me.

see Sloane lying


scream as I

you hurt?" I hear Alex's panicked voice as he reaches me. I only shake my head as I push through

knees beside her, blood soaking into the pink

I

Sloane, stay with me," I whisper, my hands already moving on

There's so much blood.

Too much.

and her lips are trembling as she blinks up at me. Her skin is pale, and she has sweat

the air. But no one moves. "Give her fucking space! Dammit!" Alex's deep voice booms and that does it. The people crowding

in me

moving fast over the wound. It's just below the ribs, lower the

the T12 region," I mutter to myself. "If the bullet

gauze and a clotting agent from the emergency pack


question why he has it. Right now, I'm just

he says,

long time and this is the first

nod, my fingers trembling only slightly as I check her vitals. "The pulse is weak, breathing is unstable. We need to stop

won't let her die." He says

in sync. I seal the wound temporarily by clamping what I can, and prep her for the ambulance

need a stretcher!" lan screams toward the

later,

into the ambulance after her, but a firm

neither of you can." the lead medic says gently. "You're emotionally involved. We

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

did lan and

like a vice but I


Not now.

"Dr. Quinn-"

through. We can't waste Any moment!" I say and the

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