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.

my name, but it sounds like it's coming from

to blur, hitting me

A gun.

Shoot.

Not me.

Sloane lying


as

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

her, blood soaking

my God!" I

me," I whisper, my hands already moving

There's so much blood.

Too much.

blinks up at me. Her skin is pale, and she

I yell, my voice loud enough to split the air. But no one moves. "Give her fucking space! Dammit!" Alex's deep voice booms and that does it. The people crowding us stumble back, startled

in me

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

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

already pulling out the gauze and a


don't question why he has it.

he says,

lann for a long time and this is the first time I've

fingers trembling only slightly as I check her vitals. "The pulse is weak, breathing is unstable. We

says to himself

what I can,

stretcher!" lan screams

seconds later, loading her onto the

me come in-" I begin to climb into the ambulance after her, but a

lead medic says gently. "You're emotionally involved. We

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

did lan and Sloane

like a vice but I


Not now.

"Dr. Quinn-"

waste Any moment!" I say and the medic sighs

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