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Chapter Twenty-Six-Rage
We spent the majority of the day at the hospital. Dante was in critical condition. When I found him in the basement I thought he was dead.
But he opened his eyes when I bent down beside him. “I’m not dead yet, brother.”
I smiled. “Well, we gotta keep you alive for a little while longer. You haven’t fallen in love yet.”
“You’re definitely pussy whipped.”
I chuckled. Carefully, I picked him up underneath his knees and back. “You’re gonna make it.”
He nodded. I didn’t realize what happened to him until I got him up the stairs. Someone had hacked his shin in half. The white bone showed through the meat of his leg. The wound was fresh which meant he hadn’t bled out yet.
We got him to the hospital in ten minutes. The police were waiting for us. We spent hours answering questions before they let us go check on Dante. They went into emergency surgery to amputate hi
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