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“Where’d he keep the keys?”
“Back pocket, I think.”
Unceremoniously I kicked him, rolled him over, and pulled out the keys.
Once Fred was freed, Eden went to release the others but nothing and no one else mattered but Fred.
“Is he breathing?”
“Pulse is really weak, Praeses.”
I scooped him up in my arms and rushed out the cellar doors toward the car. Zion was on my heels and opened the door to the SUV.
“Get us to the hospital, fast.”
Lex Talionis was on site and would deal with everything there. Right now Fred was all there was.
“Open your eyes, baby. Please.”
His face was pale, and the bruising around his neck made me want to revive Aiden just to kill him again.
Axel came over to Fred and immediately made a tourniquet to stop the bleeding on his leg, but between the blood loss and strangulation, my Red wasn’t looking so good.
“Three minutes,” Zion announced.
“Red, you need to wake up. This isn’t the end of your story, baby.”
His lips—which were blue before I got into the car—now had a little color, and I was clinging to that lifeline for all it was worth.
Zion jerked the wheel and I was about to yell at him when I saw we were at the hospital. Thank God.
“You can’t go in, sir,” he said after he opened the back door.
“Like hell I can’t.”
“You’re covered in Aiden, sir.”
Fuck, I was. “Get him inside.”
“I promise. There are clothes in the trunk.”
I watched as he rushed into the hospital with my world in his hands.
“Please don’t die on me.”
I was able to reach the duffel from over the back seats. There was a towel, four bottles of water, clothes, shoes, a hairbrush, and a first-aid kit.
Without caring if I ruined the upholstery, I stripped off everything and poured water over my head, scrubbing as much as I could out of my hair. I washed my skin and bandaged the spot where a bullet had grazed me. Quickly, I dressed, and I was tying my hair into a ponytail as I ran into the hospital.
“My…” My what, what was Fred? “My life is here, my love.”
The nurse smiled. “Name?”
“His name is Frederick Brennan.”
Her happy expression fell. “He went that way with a very angry man.”
Zion. “Thank you.”
