His brother, Antonio, slapped him on the back gently. "Don't touch her anymore. She’s alive. Now let’s wait for theparamedics."
She was probably thrown from a moving car, and she must have crawled if she made it this far into the wheat field. He leaned closer and heard the soft intake of air from hernose.
Tears threatened but he held them back. "She's still breathing, but not regularly. Where is theambulance?"
Marco hung up his phone, and knelt beside him as Lucio said, "Her leg is probably broken. She’s too pale. She might have some internaldamage."
If she was conscious, the pain would be too much, but he kept the thought to himself. Where was help? He tried to control his racing heart. "I need theambulance..."
"It's here." Antonio waved an ambulance into thefield.
The ambulance team parked and two of them were out with a stretcher, but Lucio's hand never left Amy's arm. She could die and it would be his fault for not protecting her. He let her go so the paramedics could put her on thestretcher.
Antonio patted his shoulder to get up. "Lucio, go withher."
"I should never have left her alone." Hestood.
The paramedics were checking her vitals as they lifted her into theambulance.
Marco brushed the dirt off Lucio's arm. "Let them get her to the hospital. Ensure she gets the bestcare."
He nodded, walked toward the ambulance, but turned to his brothers. "I will fly in whoever we mightneed."
"The plane is on standby." Antonio nodded. "Let's hope it's just a brokenbone."
The female paramedic said, "It'stime."
Lucio steppedinside.
The door slammed closed. Lucio sat opposite Amy whose breathing was measured on a small screen. The female paramedic came beside him with bandages. "We're cleaning her injuries, YourHighness."
The ride was bumpy. Lucio held onto his seat and saw that despite how the ambulance jostled through the field, Amy seemed immobile and white assnow.
He missed the pinkness of her flesh and the spark in his body when she held his hand. The paramedic moved away from her. He leaned closer and kissed her cheek. "Amy, I'm herenow."
She didn't move atall.
The paramedic said, "Keep talking to her. Her heartbeat isstrong."
He nodded and held her hand in his without squeezing too hard. He'd never hurt her. "Good. Whoever did this to my love is going topay."
"I understand. Her left side seems better," the paramedic said. "We immobilized theright."
She must have hit the dirt on one side. His insides all twisted at the idea that someone had thrown her out of a moving car and left her like this. He brushed her clammy skin. "She'scold."
The paramedic gave him a small smile while she typed in her computer. "She's been out in that field, but her temperature falls within normalparameters."
What if it had been the middle of winter? His heart couldn't take that. He pressed his free hand to hisknees.
For a few minutes no one said anything, but as they neared the hospital, the paramedic looked over his shoulder and tensed. "The doctors are waiting outside for you, and thepress."
The last thing Amy needed was anyone getting in her way for help. He told the driver, "Get us closest to thedoor."
"Yes,sire."
The paramedic braced the door until they arrived as close as possible to theentrance.
Lucio kissed Amy’s cheek as everyone else worked to unhook her safely. "Amy, you have to beokay."
