Chapter Nineteen: Stay With Me
“Oh my god.”
Panic ripped through Kylie instantly as Nolan swayed beside her.
Rain poured harder across the ridge while blood spread steadily down his arm, dark against the soaked black fabric of his shirt.
And somehow—
Somehow this i***t had still climbed a mountain to find her first.
“Nolan,” she breathed shakily, grabbing both of his arms now. “You got shot?”
“I noticed.”
His voice sounded rougher than before.
Weaker too.
That terrified her more than the blood.
Kylie looked frantically toward the ranch below them. “We need to get you back inside.”
“No.”
Her head snapped toward him. “Excuse me?”
Nolan’s jaw tightened against obvious pain. “Victor’s still close.”
“You are literally bleeding out!”
“Dramatic.”
“You have a bullet in your should
