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As Doc Jane and Manny went to work on Peyton, stitching up the streak by his te to fix his too-low blood pressure, Rhage was pretty fucking tired of being in situations where he couldn’t do shit
He glanced at Novo The female trainee hadn’t moved the whole tio?"
"No"
In other circuh No matter what happened, she could handle it--
His phone went off and he grabbed for it "Oh, shit … I gotta go," he said as he read the text "It’s Mary"
"We’re safe," Manny said
"I’ll send soe was out the side door and de a split second later As he re-formed in front of the Audience House, he didn’t think twice about running up the front ay and shoving open the door--
Lot of people in the foyer and everyone turned to hiasped Bitty yelled So--V, by the sound of it And then his feesturing to his chest
He couldn’t fatho his palms out "Hoas it with Ruhn--are you okay, Bitty?"
"You’re shot! You’re bleeding!"
"Huh?"
Except then he looked down at hih the front of his shirt and his leather jacket; there was bright red blood on his hands and all over his clothes … and black lesser blood dripping off his daggers, which he’d restrapped
Oh Right That whole, you know, fighting thing
"I’ Doc Jane now!" Mary said as she went for her phone
"No!" He put his hand out again "They’re operating And I’ shot in the chest! Why are you still standing! Rhage--"
He stepped in front of his mate and ripped his shirt clean down theand then skipped across the marble floor, he exposed what used to be his shiny new bulletproof vest But that now had e pounded on his chest "Kevlar" He picked another bullet out and let the thing fall to the floor--where it obligingly bounced along to play with all those buttons "I’ve been wearing theot shot, you know, the last tireed you’d stay with her after I die, but there’s no reason to rush that"
All at once, he beca nothing
Rhage cleared his throat "Or, you know, there was no reason to rush that"
There was a pause And then Mary and Bitty were on hi aburned off, the fact that he eaty and bloodstained not seehtest