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The man stands to his full tall height. “Just remember me. That’s all I ask.”
I don’t understand what he means, but I answer with the truth. “I’ll never forget you. We’re in your debt.”
He almost smiles, but then he pulls the white mask back down over his face and jogs around the back of the SUV just as the ambulance lights appear in my vision.
And then he’s gone.
And we’re the only ones left alive.
“Help is here,” I tell Dominic. “We’re going to be okay.”
But the ambulance stops down at the end of the road, on the far side of the cars. And I realize they can’t see us. And there is so much carnage, they won’t know where to look.
And Dominic is so pale.
I lean in and press my forehead to his. “You need to lie down, okay?”
Even with the stranger’s help, we don’t have time.
And I need to get the medics’ attention.
Taking my hand off the bundle of gauze, I grip Dominic’s shoulders and pull him, tugging, until I get him turned enough so I can lay him on his back. I don’t know if this is the right call, but my instincts tell me to do it.
“I’ll be right back.” I push off the ground, my legs half-numb underneath me. “I’ll be right back.”
Then, hoping all the bad guys are truly dead, I run away from Dominic. I run away from the cover, out into the open.
Waving my hands in the air, I scream.
I scream for help.
Beg them to see me.
And then they do.
And when two men get out of the ambulance and start to run across the distance, stepping around bodies strewn on the road, I turn and run back to Dominic.
And when they reach us, when the road fills with more men—King’s men—I break.
I collapse on the ground next to my husband and break.
CHAPTER80
Dom
Fuuuuuck.
Every muscle in my body aches.
I try to roll over, hating sleeping on my back, but I can’t even lift my arm.
A garbled sound comes out of my throat. My mouth feels too dry.
“Keep it down,” a masculine voice says quietly beside me.
I force my eyes to open. The room is dim, but bright enough that I can see the golden-flecked eyes staring down at me.
They’re familiar but the wrong ones.
