Swapping Fiancés：I Married the Ruthless Don novel · Chapter 18 of 24

Chapter 18: Whatever It Costs

I came back in pieces.

First there was the engine of a car, and a hand pressed over my side hard enough to hurt.

Then there was Livia's voice somewhere above me, saying my name over and over.

"Stay awake, Cami. Please, please stay awake."

"I'm awake," I said, and my own voice sounded far away.

"She's talking," said Elliot from the front seat. "That's good, isn't it? Rocco, that's good."

"Keep driving."

"I am driving."

"Drive faster."

The car went around a corner on two wheels, and I almost laughed.

Rocco's hands were over mine, and they were slick.

"You said no Ferrante men," he said through his teeth, "and I said I'd keep my promise, and I did not. Be angry at me later."

"I'm angry now."

"Good. Stay angry."

The next thing I knew, there were lights.

They were hard and white, and a woman's face leaned over mine and said something about pressure and a clean through-and-through.

I was on a kitchen table in a house I did not know.

Someone cut my shirt away with scissors.

"Where am I?"

"A safehouse in Coral Gables," Rocco said. "Nobody knows it exists. My doctor is flying in from New York. This is his nurse, and she has done this before."

"Done what?"

"Kept people alive on kitchen tables," said the nurse, and went on working.

It hurt.

The hammer I had felt in the shed had turned into a long red wire that ran all the way through me.

I clenched my teeth and tried not to scream, and then I stopped trying.

"Hold her hand," the nurse said to somebody.

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