Chapter 177

"I do, and I have medicine too." Ryan stood up and walked over, each step feeling like it was treading on my heart. "I'll teach you how to change it."

"You can change it yourself."

With that, I turned to leave.

"Charlotte."

His dry palm suddenly gripped mine, his voice gritty. "It hurts."

Just these two simple words caused my heart to soften instantly.

Moreover, it was a gunshot wound after all, not something to be taken lightly.

I stared at him, skeptical. "Ryan, how come I never noticed before that you're so good at playing the

victim?"

He lowered his gaze casually. "So you don't buy it?"

"I don't."

Leaving those two words behind, I tried to walk away again, but he forcefully pulled me back. For the first time ever, he lowered his proud head and softly said, "It really hurts."

moment, even I wanted to have a

thinking about his injury, I couldn't

felt that the saying that a woman would become unlucky if

end, I compromised.

tone softened. "It's

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the bag, he had already sat

I found everything I needed inside-gauze, iodine, hemostatic drugs, and the

just lacking

him in confusion. "Are you so well-prepared because you're waiting for Jessica to come and

to happen. She's with your father, after all,' I added

is there no brain

off your clothes." After he undressed, I

he had so selflessly taken that bullet for me

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to

his wound. Besides instructing me on how to

but ask softly, "Does

feel

eyes, as dark as midnight, locked onto mine, as if trying to see into the depths of my heart, mixed with

a beat under his gaze. I quickly looked away and denied.

"Liar."

out. "Every time you

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