Chapter 24
Chapter 24
There was something cold against my chest. Then the sound of a rhythmic beep combined with soft voices brought me to consciousness. I opened my eyes to see Dr. Jones leaning over me and staring down at me with a big beefy smile. He had the earpieces to a stethoscope sticking out of either side of his head. On either side of the bed where I was lying, there were metal rails, and clear tubes ran down to crisscross white tape on the inside crook of my elbow. On the opposite side from Dr. Jones, Alissa stood holding my hand.
“There he is,” Dr. Jones commented as he pulled the stethoscope from his ears.
Alissa squeezed my hand and smiled.
“You’re a lucky man, Ronald,” Dr. Jones said. “If that stab to your chest had gone a quarter inch deeper, you would have punctured
