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His gazeup to hers “It’s nothing”

“Nothing?” she exclai likeannoyance? Impatience? simmered in his eyes “It’s just a scratch”

“A scratch? Your whole left side is drenched in blood”

“And?” There he went again with that and of his “Are you squeamish? I hope you won’t faint”

“Squeamish?” she exclaied her throat,she’d felt on her own account His nonchalance had to be shock His wound had to be severe to bleed that istered its pain yet Adrenaline and coldhiht be too late

Ste her scarf fro its creaainst the tear in his sweater He stiffened, his hands covering hers as if to push them away

She threw her weight at hi now “We ainst her, stared down at her, his face aconsciousness?

He undid her hands, replaced them with his “I’ll do it” She sensed that he would, not because he believed he needed it, but to keep her away “You can go now”

Huh? He didn’t only want her to stay away, but to go away?

She shook her head, hands s “I have to be here when the police arrive”

He reached for her hands, wiping them clean with the other end of the scarf “I’ll say they attacked ive the et the harshest punishment possible”

“Whatever sentence the law passes won’t be that I am bound by no such li this to anyone else ever again”

“You htly so you can administer your own brand of justice?” She threw her hands up in the air “What are we talking about? You’re injured And I’oing to the ER, the only place you can go now is home” At her head shake, his voice hardened “Take uards will come to escort you back home They’ll come up with you to uard until we encies” When she didn’t move or answer he exhaled forcibly “Go now, before the police arrive You’ve been through enough on those scuet this ever happened”

“I can’t and won’t leave you And you will go to the ER Is that your car?” She indicated the i Mercedes

He nodded “I stopped to send a file fro attacked”

He didn’t nod again, his gaze growing incapacitating