Swapping Fiancés：I Married the Ruthless Don novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Say It Again
Rocco's POV
My doctor landed in Miami at dawn and had a needle in her arm by seven.
He is a thin, gray man who has sewn up three generations of Ferrantes and has never once told me what he thinks of us.
He checked the wound, and the drip, and the chart the nurse had kept all night.
"The bullet missed everything it could have hit," he said. "The blood loss is the problem. She had a fever by midnight."
"Will it break?"
"I don't know."
"Then what do you know?"
"That she is young and strong and very stubborn, Don Ferrante. You married her. You would know."
He left me alone with her.
It was a small room at the back of the house, with a white bed and a window onto a courtyard of orange trees.
Cami lay in the bed in one of my shirts, with her dark hair stuck to her forehead.
Her face was gray.
Her lips were cracked.
I sat down in the chair beside the bed, and I did not leave it all day.
At noon Livia came in with a bowl of broth she knew no one could use, and sat on the other side of the bed.
"Mr. Ferrante," she said. "You've been here since last night."
"Yes."
"You should eat."
"I will."
"You won't." She looked at me. "I keep thinking I've seen you somewhere. In a dream. You were standing at the bottom of a staircase and you looked sad."
"I'm sorry," I said.
"For what?"
"For whatever I did in it."
She studied me with her big brown eyes, and then, slowly, she put her hand on top of mine on the blanket.
"Whatever you did," Livia said. "She chose you. That's good enough for me."
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