Total pages in book: 81
Estimated words: 94716 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 474(@200wpm)___ 379(@250wpm)___ 316(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 94716 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 474(@200wpm)___ 379(@250wpm)___ 316(@300wpm)
Her yells attracted the attention of the police officers that were still watching the house. Downy and Luke were the first to surround the woman. Then, as if she were in a movie, she started spinning around as fast as she could with the knife held out in front of her. Jack, Downy, and Luke all backed away and watched as the woman spun, screaming like a banshee to ‘Go to hell.’
Heart in my throat, I got back into the ambulance, then closed and locked the door as I should’ve done in the first place. I watched as the woman kept going and going. She wasn’t tiring out in the least.
Mother Nature decided to make herself known in the next instant with a boom of thunder and a crack of lightening lighting up the night sky. The woman, startled at the sound, lost her balance. Her top-heavy stomach brought her down hard to the ground.
Then the screaming started, followed shortly after by the blood pooling on the road around her. Hopping out, I realized my mistake a second too late as I put weight on my injured leg, collapsing it beneath me. Remembering fast what I’d done, I realized that there was no way I could help. My leg was throbbing like a SOB and there was no way I was going near all that blood with an open wound of my own.
It also didn’t help that Danni passed out as soon as she got close to the bleeding woman. Apparently, a knife the size of a small sword sticking out of her arm shocked the girl enough that she just couldn’t handle it. Lucky for us, there was another ambulance on the scene that took over the woman.
Once she was loaded onto the stretcher, Luke cuffed her to the rail, and then stepped back to let them take her to the hospital. It was the sway on my feet from the blood loss that finally brought the attention back to me. Downy was the first to react and I found myself swooped up bridal style in his arms. Jack’s hiss of outrage was cut off mid-growl as he finally saw the wound.
I found myself placed in the back of my own ambulance and thought it was weird as hell riding in this position, instead of sitting on the bench beside it. Then I had a moment where an Indian warrior, a blonde Viking, and a Scottish highlander started to feel me up and I lost consciousness.
***
Jack
“Did she just call us what I think she called us?” Downy asked.
I glared at him as he looked at Winter curiously and then went back to her leg. Luke handed me a pair of scissors and I cut the pant leg of Winter’s blue pants all the way up to her crotch.
Saying a silent prayer that she had on underwear, I surveyed the damage. Luke’s hands handed me a package of four by fours, and I ripped them open and started cleaning away the blood. Once the wound was exposed, bile rose in my stomach as I saw the deep wound that was about one and a half inches wide.
“You need gloves. That’s how you get AIDS.” A bitchy voice said from the back of the ambulance.
I glanced up at the blonde who said that and just as quickly went back to what I was doing. Applying pressure with a new pair of four by four bandages, I said, “I’ll keep that in mind.”
“Can you do an IV?” Luke asked.
“Uhh, if I have to. Only done a few in my time, but I’m sure I can manage it.”
“I’ll do it.” The blonde said.
“Well then, get it done.” I snapped.
After the second miss, I took the supplies out of her hands and slid the needle in on the first try. “I could have done that!” The girl snapped.
“Well, so could I.” I said as I hooked the IV bag up to the port.
“What’s her blood type?” Luke asked.
“We’ll just give…”
I interrupted whatever she was about to say with, “O negative.”
“Get up front and drive to the hospital.” Downy demanded of the girl.
“I-I can’t. Winter’s the driver.” She sputtered.
“Fuck.” He said and hefted himself out the back.
Slamming the doors, he rounded the vehicle and was in the driver’s seat in the next instant. We moved fast, but since Winter’s pulse was strong and steady, and we had some fluids going into her, we didn’t use the sirens.
Once Winter was safely ensconced in the trauma room at the ER and we were kicked out, I rounded on Luke and Downy with my fists clenched. “What the fuck was that?” I bellowed.
Bystanders backed up and gave us a wide berth. It wasn’t every day that a man yelled at two police officers in full riot gear, and to them I must’ve seemed out of my mind. Which I was. I’d just witnessed a woman with a seven inch knife go after my wife and I was livid.
“What happened to doing your fucking jobs? What kind of goddamn cops are you?”
I was still yelling and they let me. Realizing that I needed the release, they didn’t say a word until after I hung my head and took a seat with my back to the wall. My stomach was a riot of roiling emotions.
This very feeling right here was one I never wanted to feel again. Yet, I’d felt it a lot more lately than was good for me here lately. Once she was healed, I was going to forbid her ever to leave our house.
“Sorry man.” Luke said with pain in his eyes.
Tonight, when James dropped me off at Free, I thought I was going to be fighting a different battle with Winter.
Oh, I didn’t doubt for one single minute that she’d confront me over the incident. I was just ecstatic that she would be well enough to have it at all. She could’ve easily been killed by that psycho bitch and I would’ve never been there to stop it if she hadn’t seen me tonight.