Save Me

Chapter 15

Moving over to my left, still in a squatting position, I manage to swing the door open enough for me to slip inside the container. Before I slip inside the container, my attention is drawn to Alexi, and he's not paying attention to what's happening behind him, which is someone who isn't with us, quickly and quietly approaching him with a knife drawn, and ready to strike.

"Alexi, lasciati andare!" I holler at him, bring my gun up to shoot the approaching man, and shoot him once Alexi's dropped to his right knee.

The man drops to the ground from the kill shot in between his eyes. Alexi shoots me a quick, grateful smile before focusing on taking down others. Before I can enter the container once most of the others have been handled, my right upper arm is instantly burning, and pain flares through my arm to my shoulder, and down to my fingertips. Instantly knowing that I've been shot in the arm, I clench my teeth from crying out, and make my way inside the container.

Trying to ignore the pain and blood soaking my shirts and skin, I quickly check the contents, and find that all of our products are indeed there. Stepping out of the container as Romeo opens the other door, and I tell him all of our products are accounted for.

"Good. Papa and Da will be happy to hear that," he answers, pulling his phone out to call Papa.

Alexi stands in front of me blocking my way toward the SUV, a deep frown etched onto his face; "Let me look at your arm."

Raising an eyebrow at his demand, not liking how he sounded; "I'm gonna go to the SUV to wrap it until we get home. Then Theo is gonna do whatever he needs."

"Who in the bloody hell is Theo?" he demands, making me roll my eyes at him with a sigh; "Theo is our doctor and surgeon in the medical building. Haven't you been there since coming back home?"

"No, haven't had a need," he states, his eyes locked on my bleeding arm. "Last I knew Doc Morgan was here."

"Doc's still here, but he assists Theo now because Doc's getting older," I reply, stepping around Alexi as I hear Romeo mentioning to Papa about my arm.

Alexi follows me to the SUV we came here in, and I open the back hatch to grab the large 1st Aid kit, and grab out a large bandage, and the self-sticking wrap. Grabbing a knife off my calf, I cut away my long sleeve shirt, slightly pissed cuz it's one of my favorites, and struggled until Alexi took the knife from me to finish, wrapping the wrap around the bandage despite my protests.

"Hush, and let me do this," Alexi demands with a soft glare before focusing on his task. "Do you know if the bullet exited your arm or not?"

"I have no clue, Theo and doc will know," I mumble, starting not to feel well from the blood loss, and the adrenaline starting to wear off.

"Romeo, I'm taking Milan back, so doc can check him over!" Alexi calls to my brother who is ordering the henchmen to load the product into two of the SUV's.

"Alright! They're waiting and expecting you both! Drive safely but not slowly!" Romeo calls back. "We'll take care of everything here!"

Alexi nods as I feel like I'm gonna puke everywhere, and he walks me around to the front passenger seat, loading me inside, buckling me, and slamming the door shut. He jogs around to the driver's side, and climbs in, and drives us quickly back toward the house. I can feel his gaze every so often as I lay with the side of my face against the cold glass of the window with my eyes shut. He pulls up next to the medical building, and my door is ripped open by Papa, who instantly unbuckles me, and pulls me from the vehicle, and carries me inside the building.

"I can walk, Papa," I mumble, my face stuffed into his chest as he rushes down the hallway toward Doc and Theo.

"Hush," Papa gently demands, kissing the top of my head. "You boys made me and Da proud."

Humming against him, I'm placed onto a medical bed, I crack my eyes open enough to watch Theo and doc start doing whatever they're gonna do to me. Papa takes me out of my BPV before doc cuts me out of my shirts, and Theo injects me with a pain reliever.

"The bullet is still lodged in his arm," Theo states, and that's when I'm asleep from the pain reliever which worked faster than I expected.

When I come to, there's the annoying beeping from the monitor on my finger that's monitoring my heart rate, oxygen levels and whatnot. I realize I have a nasal oxygen tube in my nose, and it's kinda annoying, but I know better than to remove this because if I do, I'll be yelled at. I'll also be yelled at if I try to remove the I.V. that's located in my left hand.

The diver curtain is moved, and Theo walks into the section I'm in, but he's looking at the clipboard for me I'm assuming, and he's talking with Da and Papa; "He'll be fine, the removal of the bullet went smoothly, and he's receiving antibiotics, fluids to keep him hydrated, and pain reliever, and he can go home tomorrow night as long as everything containers to improve."

"Oh, Milan, nice to see you awake!" Theo says, surprised, and Papa and Da instantly look at me with a concerned expression that they almost instantly mask with smiles. "How are you feeling?"

"Like I got shot, my arm hurts but not too badly," I mumble, shifting around slightly, trying to find a more comfortable position. "Where's Lucca?"

"Lucca's with Romeo, Alexi, and Matteo," Da answers, standing by my head as Papa and Theo stay by my feet, and he swipes the hair toward my temple, away from my eyes.