Page 45 of Shattered Love
Dominic
The siren breaks the air.I pull her tighter against my chest. “Baby, they are here. You hear that, beautiful? Just hang on, beautiful.” My own voice isn’t even recognizable.
Carter pushes through the crowd. He goes deathly pale as he pulls his hair, tears running down his face.
“Don’t you dare give up on her. She would never give up on you!” I growl low like an animal.
I want to punch him, scream at him. How dare he give up on her.
His eyes don't leave my girl as he nods. “You need to let Avery go. They need to get to her.” I realize the medics are all staring as I cocoon Avery in my arms.
I shake my head, holding her lifeless body tight against my chest. A sob breaks my breath. “I can’t let her go.”
He squats down in front of me, looking me straight in the eyes.
“Then let them try and save her.” He gives my shoulder a squeeze. I nod.
The medics rush in. taking her from me, leaving my arms empty and cold. “We have a female, shot multiple times. She’s lost a lot of blood and is in her final term of pregnancy.”
I clench my hands to stop the shaking. “She’s eight months, thirty-four weeks. It’s a little girl,” I shout.
The paramedic nods. “You are?”
I can’t take my eyes off my girls as they work on her. “They are mine.”
Pity fills his eyes.
I grab his arm. “You need to save her…she’s my life.”
The paramedic swallows.
“We’ve got a weak pulse. Your wife is a fighter, sir,” another medic shouts.
“She won’t leave me. She can’t.”
I jump into the back of the ambulance holding my beautiful wife’s cold hand as they work around me.
I’ve never been a friend of God. He never answered a single fucking prayer when I was growing up. I used to think he hated me, that is until I saw Avery walking down the school corridor, her head stuck between the pages of a book. I swear the world stopped fucking turning. She was so fucking beautiful it almost hurt to look at her. She had a long mane of chocolate hair that framed her sweetheart face and high cheekbones with lips that were pouty and dark pink in color. She was breathtaking, but when she lifted those sapphire blues, catching mine for a second, I saw my whole life flash before my eyes. I saw the man that I wanted to be, I saw a home. The way she looked at me, I had never seen someone look at me before. My whole world tilted on its axis. That's when I knew she was my reason.
Fuck, if I wasn’t praying to every God there was to save my beautiful and asking them to take me instead.
There is a team of doctors already waiting. They start shouting and rush my whole world, my everything, away from me.
Carter turns up at some point, but I’m not sure when.
“Dominic.”
I don’t turn at Molly’s voice or the quiet sobs.
“I just spoke to her…” She hiccups. “What happened?”
I can’t think at the moment. Every emotion is running around in my head and I can’t fucking understand one of them. Everything is like white noise, am not even in my own body.
The doctor walks out. “Stone family.” His eyes widen when I walk forward. “I’m sorry, Mr. Stone. When your wife came in, she coded, but we’ve got her back. We’ve done a scan and by some miracle your daughter is alive, but she has started to show signs of distress. We’ve taken your wife up to perform an emergency C-section. I’m sorry, but I can’t tell you any more at this time.”
I grit my teeth so hard, I’m surprised I haven’t broken a damn tooth.
“If it comes between them, you save Avery. Always Avery.”
