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Chapter 12

Author: Peters
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Camilla.

“You were shot.” The doctor said and I was still confused with everything that he was saying. I was still trying to understand what I was doing here.

“One bullet entered just above your gracilis muscle on your right leg, leaving a quarter-inch hole. It went through the skin, then the fat layer, through the pectineus muscle, just medial to the femoral vessels and nerve, through the quadratus femoris muscle, through the head of the biceps femoris, and through the gluteus maximus before exiting through the skin on the other side. The exit wound was far more impressive. It blew a hole four inches across. Gone. No flap. No pieces. Your skin just vaporized.” He whistles, impressed, through his teeth. “You had a pulse but no measurable blood pressure when they found you. Then you stopped breathing. You were dead, but we brought you back.”

He holds up his thumb and forefinger. “The bullet missed your femoral artery by this far.” I can barely see a gap between them. “Otherwise, you wo
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