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And now she wants to save him?
“Don’t look at me. We need to help him fast,” she says, ripping a piece of her own shirt off to tie it just above the bullet wound in his thigh to stop the bleeding.
I brush my tears away and try to move him, but he’s far too heavy for me.
“Where are we going to take him? The hospitals will never accept anyone with a bullet wound. They’ll turn us over to the police.”
“I know a place.” Luca clears his throat, drawing my attention as he lowers the gun and tucks it into his pocket. “Put him in the car. I’ll drive.”
I blink a couple of times, surprised he’d even offer. “Are you s—?”
“Don’t fucking waste time we don’t have,” Luca growls at me as he marches toward us and grabs Liam by the shoulders. “Take a leg each.”
I quickly get up and put my hand around his thick thigh while Jill carries the other, and we’re barely able to lift him with the three of us. Never in my life could I have imagined having to carry a man this heavy just from the sheer amount of muscle. But we still manage to haul him to their car and put him down on the back seat.
“I’ll stay with him,” I say, and I slide into the car and put Liam’s head on my lap.
Luca jumps behind the wheel while Jill clicks her seat belt into place in the passenger’s seat and looks at Luca. “Let’s go.”
He throws her another look, and for a moment, I’m envious of their ability to communicate without saying a word.
But then I remember just how aware Liam was of my feelings for him.
While I was not.
But I should have noticed sooner.
I should have told him everything.
Should’ve stopped them from kissing.
From running off.
From driving that ca—
A sudden hand on my knee pulls me from my thoughts. “Don’t blame yourself,” Jill says.
I try to smile even though I’m crying. “I’m scared.”
She squeezes. “I know. But we’ll make it there in time.”
I want to believe her, but it’s so damn hard when he’s here on my lap dying, and there’s nothing I can do to fix it. I caress his hair, hoping he can feel it.
“We won’t let him die,” Jill says. “Just like Luca and I didn’t let each other die.”
I nod a few times, pushing away the tears as I clutch Liam’s hand and press another kiss to his forehead. “Stay with me. Please,” I whisper. “I need you.”
Chapter 35
Jasmine
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The wait seems forever in this tiny, dubious-looking clinic Luca found on the outskirts of a town in the middle of fucking nowhere. I have no clue where we are or how we even got here this fast. All I know is that our families apparently have connections everywhere, even in Germany.
I don’t know if that should scare me or make me glad. The oozing wound on his thigh looked gnarly, and it definitely hit a blood vessel. I just hope he makes it out alive.
I swallow away the lump in my throat, but it does nothing to ease my nerves.
