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CHAPTER 142: CHAINS THAT BITE 2
CHAINS THAT BITE 2“The nurse is dead." The words cut clean through Damien's speech, shorting the words ready to leave his lips. He just laid there, staring at the attorney with eyes wide open. A single breath left him as he shook himself back to reality. "The nurse… what?”Adrian nodded, his expression remaining unchanged. "As you know, she took a shot straight to the chest," he said calmly. “It was a direct hit to her heart. She managed to stay alive for a while according to the reports, but she died before they could fully stabilize her." Damien blinked, silence–real silence this time–falling over the room. He ran his free hand through his sweat-slicked hair, his gaze drifting away, unfocused now. His throat bobbed once as he forced a swallow. His thoughts traveled, and for a second, everything replayed smoothly in his mind. He saw the tray falling, the blood blooming from her chest, her body jerking to the thunder clap of the bullet whizzing through the air. "Shit,” was all h
CHAPTER 141: CHAINS THAT BITE 1
CHAINS THAT BITE 1“…you’ve gotta be kidding me.”The words left slipped past Damien's lips, his voice rough and hoarse from the dryness scratching at his throat. He closed his eyes and sighed, forcing a swallow before turning his head to his injured arm again. His eyes dropped to the cuff around his wrist, his jaw tightening as he twisted his hand. A wave of pain curled up his shoulder, jabbing at his wound as the metal caught the faint sterile light above him. “Hmm," he grunted, giving it a slight tug. It clinked against the railing but stayed in place. Of course, it fucking would. He let out a quiet breath through clenched teeth as he turned his head toward the ceiling again and dropped it back against the pillow. For a second, he just kept his gaze fixed on the ceiling, letting his new reality slowly settle in. Until he heard a soft shuffle come from beside him again and the man in the suit moved from the corner of his vision. He stepped closer to the bed, his steps slow and
CHAPTER 140: HANGING ON A THREAD
HANGING ON A THREADMuffled voices that tore through the fabric of his thoughts, leaving fragments as they slipped in and out. Like they didn't belong in the same room. That was the first thing he heard. “—losing too much blood—”“Get pressure on that wound!”“His pulse is dropping—”He groaned as something cold pressed against his skin. Another grabbed his shoulder, pinning him down as his groan grew to a yell as fiery agony tore through his wound. The entire world dulled down to a low hum as different hands moved over him, touched him, and held him down. Damien tried to open his eyes, but his eyelids felt heavy. Like they had been sealed shut with concrete. He just let out a low breath and twisted on the soft surface he laid one, groaning with every rattle that shook his body. “…stay with us, sir… can you hear me?”A light flashed across his face, burning past his closed eyelids and hitting his eyes. He squinted even with his vision dark and flinched weakly, the motion causing h
CHAPTER 139: DEAD ENOUGH?
DEAD ENOUGH?The nurse immediately nodded, her head bobbing up and down as she tried to slow her breathing. Her trembling hands slipped down from the doorknob as she began moving toward Jim first. Dropping to her knees, she pressed her hands against the wound in a bid to study them. “Alright, I'll… I'll need some gauze and… if you could just help apply some pressure on nurse Jackie’s wounds,” she muttered to Damien as she took in slow breaths, already working. Damien remained where he was, staring at the nurse's still body a meter away. Then he turned to the working nurse, scuttling forward. “You've got them," he said, his voice dropping low. "Right?”She paused, her eyes slowly lifting to him. They still held fear, but hidden beneath that fear was a quiet strength, one that grew as she nodded quickly. “Yeah," she said, turning to the fallen nurse. “I'll try to help all of them." That was all Damien needed. Immediately, he gave her a curt nod and rose to his feet. He was headed
CHAPTER 138: BLOOD AND BREATH 3
BLOOD AND BREATH 3For a long moment, Damien just stood there, the gun hanging loosely in his gto as he stared out the window. His chest heaved heavily with tired breaths as the weight of everything that had happened came crashing down on him. The deafening silence the gunfire had left in the room didn't last, as it was immediately broken by reality. First came the loud screaming from the people below as they all huddled around the body, mixed with the wailing of sirens that cut through the halls, sharp and frantic. Footsteps boomed past the corridor outside, commanding voices overlapping as they shouted orders with panic bleeding through their tone. And at the center of it all stood Damien. He was numb, blinking slowly as he tried to pull himself out of the gaze settling over him. That's true… they were still bleeding. The thought immediately snapped him back into focus and he spun fast. Immediately, he dropped to his knees behind Elara again, dropping a hand over the cut the bu
CHAPTER 137: BLOOD AND BREATH 2
BLOOD AND BREATH 2Quickly, he dragged Jim across the floor, smeared streaks of red trailing behind his body. The moment he dropped him behind the bed, he pressed a hand against the commissioner’s wound again, hissing as he tries to slow the bleeding. “Stay alive, Jim," he muttered, red seeping between the creases of his fingers. “You don't get to fucking die on me before telling me what the hell you were about to say." Jim’s eyes fluttered open, shifting until they met Damien's. He opened his lips to speak but all that came out was a weak, choking breath. Damien cursed through clenched teeth as he exhaled sharply. Biting down on his lips, he looked around quickly, taking in the mess that surrounded him. The room was a complete wreck. Glass littered the floor, most of the equipments had been destroyed and the white tiles was now stained red with blood. And the window… it was still wide open. "Think, think, think,” he muttered under his breath. Leaving the room wasn't the best as
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