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

to blur, hitting me

A gun.

Shoot.

Not me.

and see Sloane lying in


out a scream as

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

her, blood soaking into the pink silk pooling around

my God!" I

me," I whisper, my hands already moving on

There's so much blood.

Too much.

her lips are trembling as she blinks up at me. Her skin

no one moves. "Give her fucking space! Dammit!" Alex's deep voice booms and that does it. The people crowding us stumble back, startled by the sudden command.. The panic and

in

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

mutter to myself. "If the bullet touched her spinal

pulling out the gauze and a clotting agent from the emergency pack he brought with


it. Right now, I'm just

he says,

a long time and this is the first time

her vitals. "The pulse is weak, breathing is

let her die." He says to himself as he puts on

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

stretcher!" lan screams toward the

seconds later, loading

the ambulance

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

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

did lan and Sloane

grips me like a vice but I shut it


Not now.

"Dr. Quinn-"

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

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