Alex’s POVDavid was shielding Lucas with his body just before a bullet hit him in the back.Lucas had his gun aimed and shot the injured guy who just tried to shoot him before David jumped in front of him. the guy went down with a bullet to his head.“David!” Lucas called out frantically as he held on to him and checked his injury.Unfortunately, we didn’t have time to wear our bullet proof vests because of how urgently we had to catch up with Jenny. We barely had time to grab our guns and extra back ups.Blood was spilling down his shirt, drenching it.The bullet was lodged in the right side of his lower back.“Dammit David!” Lucas shouted in rage.There was no response from David, he passed out.Jenny was still clutching me tightly and shaking violently.I lifted her up again and shouted at the others to help carry David back to the car and press on his wound so he doesn’t bleed out.Snow was merely twenty five minutes away from here.I got in the back of one of the SUVs, with Jenn
Alex’s POVI arrived at home and reassured Sara and April that David was out of surgery and that his condition wasn’t critical before I went into my room.Mom was sitting beside her, playing with her hair.She was still asleep.Thankfully, they cleaned her up and changed her clothes into comfortable baby blue, cotton pants and t-shirt.Mom stood up when she saw me and I told her about David before she asked me.She visibly relaxed and I could tell how worried she was for him.“Did she wake up at all?” I asked her.She shook her head and said in a low voice “No, she never woke up but her diabetes is stable, I checked her watch frequently. She’s probably exhausted from all the fear she went through today. She needs you the most right now. It’s a good thing she didn’t wake up yet because the first person she’d want to see is you, Alex”I nodded my head and clenched my jaw tensely.She left the room after that even though I could tell she had many questions on her mind, but she let me be
Jenny’s POVAfter a long steamy shower together, we finally left our room and joined the rest of the family for dinner.David was the only one missing and it was at that moment that I remembered him taking a bullet for Lucas.“How’s David?” I asked Lucas warily.“He’s okay, I tried to get him discharged but the doctor said he had to stay at least for tonight for more observation” said Lucas gently.I could see it in his eyes even though he didn’t say it. He was very touched by David’s sacrifice.These two will never grow apart again after today.“How are you Jenny? We were so scared when we realized what happened” said Diana gravelly.I could almost hear the hint of reproach in her tone at the move I made behind their backs by sneaking out without telling anyone.Before I could explain myself, Alex jumped to my rescue “She was in a very tough situation and didn’t have any time to alert anyone mom. Megan’s life was at stake, she didn’t have much of a choice”Diana nodded and said emoti
Alex’s POV I have no idea what happened. That was the first coherent thought that popped into my head prior to opening my eyes. I knew what the last thing I saw and felt was before I blacked out, but I have no idea what happened next I mean. Am I alive? Am I dead? Am I going to wake up in hell now? Or am I going to end up in heaven somehow because come on god! I never spilled any innocent blood. All the people I’ve killed had it coming. If we’re being truthful here, I helped you recycle a bit, didn’t I? Or am I going to wake up to complete darkness and discover that there is really nothing on the other side but unending blackness that leads to nothing? What if I’m still alive? What if Jenny is dead? Please god don’t punish me this way. Don’t take her away from me and let me live soulless on this earth, because without her I am nothing. I’m worth nothing. Without her I can’t live. I just…….can’t. “Alex, can you hear me? Open your eyes” I hear Lucas’s voice calling to me.
Alex’s POV FIVE DAYS LATER It’s been five fucking days and Jenny hasn’t woken up yet. Five fucking days of complete agony and torture. I was dying to hear her voice, look into her eyes, taste her tongue on mine. Five fucking days of no indication or sign of her planning to wake up from this. I was glued to her side for three days now. Constantly talking to her, calling for her, begging her, holding her hand, kissing her cheeks, and running my hand through her hair. Her condition was stable. Her gunshot wound was slowly healing without any complications. But she couldn’t breathe on her own. She was on a ventilator. My injuries were improving as well. My arm and thigh wounds were not that serious, but I had to use one crutch to support me so I don’t put a lot of pressure on my injured thigh. My stomach wound needed me to be more careful so I don’t rip my stitches or let them get infected, but I was managing fine. I was in pain but nothing beat the pain of seeing Jenny like t
Jenny’s POV I could tell he was struggling with whatever it was he was hiding from me. Which made my stomach contract nervously. I bit my lip and looked at him expectantly. He took a deep breath and started with a sentence that had my breath catching and my heart skipping a beat “We are officially dead, you and I. Everyone in Snow; except our family, knows we died at the hospital after the attack on our house. They had our funeral two days ago and buried us in the family cemetery. As far as Zade knows, he succeeded in killing us. And that will give us more time and an element of surprise to dig around for the information we need without him knowing about it. I gave the leadership over to Lucas and asked him to take care of the border entrances so that Zade wouldn’t take any advantage with me gone and try to over take the town or smuggle anything through it” He stopped talking to let me register what he just said to me, but I could tell that there was more to that plan of his. “If
Two Weeks LaterJenny’s POV“Damn you’re really a natural at this Jenny” said Alex proudly from where he was standing behind me.I lower down the gun I just successfully shot three bottles from, and turn to him with a wide grin “I told you I’ll have your back, even though you seemed unconvinced at the time. Hope I proved you wrong by now”We’ve been hiding in the middle of no where Canada, deep into the woods where a small abandoned house became our hide out for the past week.After I got discharged, we flew to Toronto; with fake passports of course, stayed with my aunt and mom for one week to get my strength back while Alex gathered all the information he needed to start our search and hunt for Zade’s contacts.And then we set out on our journey together.First stop, this place.I’ve been learning how to shoot like a pro, and some self defense moves, all taught by my very sexy husband Alex.Damn, I can’t forget the first time he taught me how to hold and use a gun.He had stood direc
First of all, thank you always to my readers for picking out this book and reaching this far. Your encouragements, comments, and votes are what always motivate me into writing to the best of my abilities. With that said, I hope you enjoyed this book as much as I truly enjoyed writing it. I honestly put my heart and soul into writing this book and I hope it showed somewhere in these pages and that you felt it too. Alex and Jenny became more than just fictional characters, they felt real to me. Their pain was real, their joy was real, everything about them felt real to me and I got so attached to them since the beginning. I got so attached to them, I literally couldn’t bring myself to write the original ending I had for this book. I knew how it should end before I even started the prologue. But when I came to that moment where Jenny was supposed to actually die during the shootout at their house, I couldn’t. The pain was just too unbearable. Even though leading the kind of lifestyle