Chapter 34
I don’t remember much after the sound of the gunshot. Just heat, pain and then nothing.
But what I do know is that Nathan didn’t let go. Even as I slipped into darkness, I felt his arms around me, his voice screaming my name, panicked, ragged, terrified. Everything else was a blur. The blood, the sirens, the chaos. I let it all go.
Nathan was at the hospital in under fifteen minutes.
"She’s bleeding out!" he yelled as the paramedics wheeled me through the automatic doors. "Somebody help her!"
Doctors and nurses swarmed around us, barking instructions, snapping gloves on, moving with terrifying speed. One nurse shouted, "Gunshot wound to the abdomen! BP is dropping rapidly."
Nathan held onto my hand as far as they let him, his fingers slick with my blood, shaking. "Please s
