Chapter 127

That person dropped an address, a stone’s throw from the Starlight Group.

When Brandon got there, the ambulance hadn’t arrived yet, but he spotted Sophia, the center of the crowd’s attention.

She was propped up in a chair by the storefront, clutching her left arm with her right, blood oozing through her fingers and dripping down, her face as pale as a ghost, with a furrowed brow and a pained expression.

At her feet lay a wooden sign, split in two, along with a clothing bag.

The clerk was beside himself, glancing out the door in a panic, muttering on repeat, “Where the heck is that ambulance?” Despite her pain, Sophia was still somewhat lucid.

“Get me a strip of cloth,” she managed to say, her voice weak.

“Huh? Oh, sure,” the clerk replied, still in a tizzy, looking around aimlessly for some ratty piece of cloth.

Brandon elbowed his way through the crowd and squatted down in front of Sophia.

“Hanging in there?” he asked in a low voice, taking over the pressure on her wound with one hand, while reaching for the clothing bag with the other, swiftly pulling out a garment to wrap around her arm, not even checking what it was. As he wrapped her up, he looked at her, “Anything else hurting besides your arm?”

head instinctively, still feeling woozy.

shield herself, buffering the blow to her head, but the sharp metal edge that came with the sign still managed to slice a big gash in her arm, and the blood gushed out. The impact had left her head

noticed Sophia’s daze and gently stroked her

you to the hospital.”

that, he slid one arm under her armpits and the other

made Sophia instinctively cling to

close and turned to

clothes,” someone called out, and the

to the car outside, holding her steadily as he strode through the alley. His steps were firm, his breathing even, and he held

sound of his steady heartbeat and his familiar scent enveloping her, giving her a

left Sophia with mixed feelings, which momentarily overshadowed the discomfort in her body and

of the alley, the ambulance had just

ambulance and to the

and, concerned about a

her into the hospital room. After a series of blood tests and brain CT

as she returned to her

eyes to meet a pair of

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