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Chapter 22: The Awakening

“Can you hear me, baby?”

Jake blinked. Everything had ceased to exist and his world had turned black after that gunshot. What now?

“Can you see me?”

He turned his head slowly and looked at the face hovering above his own. It was a woman’s face that could have been considered beautiful if not for her puffy eyes, red nose and swollen lips.

“Diamond…” he croaked.

“Yes, honey. It’s me,” she whispered and sniffed back a blub of mucus before it slipped out of her nose.

“What happened?” He rasped.

“You saved me, baby. You saved my life!”

“I did?”

“Yes.”

Jake didn’t remember much about the shooting but all he knew was that something hard hit him in the chest and he passed out.

“That bastard Mendici fellow tried to shoot me and you jumped in front of me to protect me at the last second just as he pulled the trigger. That was insanely brave of you, Jake. You saved my life!”

She started to cry and Jake winced. He wanted to comfort her but he was in so much pain, he couldn’t even move his arms.

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