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Just as he starts to guidemy attention

It all seems to happen in slow motion

I see the guy on the un in his hand, or hear the loud boom that echoes off the walls of the alley My heartbeat dru belatedly that Axle has just shoved me down

He comes down on top of me as an unbidden cry leaves h unfire deafenstoo close to my ears

The guy on the isters It takesshot

He falls off the bike, obviously dead by now, but they don’t stop shooting I don’t even knoho they are, other than Axle, who is shooting his da mine down

All at once, the gunfire stops, or at least I think it does My ears are ringing fro too close to the action in such a closed off area, so I could just be momentarily deaf

It feels like a mountain lifts off my back when Axle pushes up to his feet Air rushes into ,when I feel a sharp pain in my side

Axle bends, his face hard and his jaw tight, as he grabs me under the ar, his eyes rake overaround di

I hiss out a breath of pain when his hand touches a tender spot onto need to take inventory, but at least there aren’t any bullet holes in me

That hasat my side that hurts I breathe out in relief to see my shirt is just torn and the abrasions are left behind from the pavement and not a bullet

“Just superficial stuff,” I tell Axle as he bends, getting a closer look at my side

My eyes dart to his arhtens in my belly when I see the rippedfrom his shoulder

“You were shot!”

He bats my hands ahen I try to take a look, but I’ out a breath of frustration, he lets me look closer at it

“Just a graze,” he finally says

I look at hiraze But it’s a big freaking graze from a damn bullet!