Chapter 91

“Not tonight!”

I screeched, urging Bright to call the police again, this delay felt like being stuck in darkness for centuries. I let my tears flow down my cheeks, praying in my heart. Leo came in front of the bullet which was supposed to end my life.

“Please save him, God. He can’t die like this.”

My sincere prayers eventually softened Heaven’s resolve, I heard the sirens of the police vans and ambulance soon, resulting in cross firing. It didn’t take them long to subdue the opposition, I held Leo’s hand and assured him.

“You will be fine, Leo. Please hang in here. We will take you to the hospital.”

A bleak smile stretched Leo’s brown lips; his pale face trembled my heart. He coughed up blood in an attempt to speak.

“Don’t lie to yourself, Laura. I am going but…

I hope you and Bright will find happiness together. I wish you… you…”

Gasping for air, he was on the brink of death when the firing stopped, prevailing silence in the surrounding. I heard anxious voices of the paramedical staff.

“Make a way for the gurney. We have GSW patient, male. Oxygen stat…”

A team of emergency rescuers arrived like the first ray of sunshine after a dark, long night, they immediately tended to Leo. Numbed by shock and fear, I blindly sprinted behind the staff, but they asked me.

you can’t come in the ambulance with us. Please take

safe for driving, and it was impossible to order a cab so late. So, I begged officer Nolan

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there, Leo was in the operation theater for surgery, the ER doctor requested me for

under attack, it must be terrifying. Please let

surgeons will try their best to save

able to discipline his emotions shortly,

room.

doctors, Laura, I will consult Leo’s case with the hospital’s chief.

arrange the best doctors

Leo’s safety. If he didn’t dare to save me,

It would be better if he woke

prescribed some medicines for shock and panic. I felt better

after that treatment.

long, and because of excessive blood loss, he needed blood. His rare AB negative blood group was hard to find, it was Bright’s connection in the city that the hospital could arrange for ten units of blood on urgent

and forth in front of the doors of the operation theater when the red light turned green after a painful wait, signaling the end

heart forgot to beat as a doctor walked out and took off his mask to

condition was critical when you brought him. Unfortunately, that bullet

“No!”

the doctor’s mouth, I couldn’t help but scream, the low survival rates for such penetrating injuries pushed me into the abyss of

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