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Chapter 137: Race Against Time

Author: Writer B
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-11-18 17:59:34

John's POV.

The paramedics wheeled me through the emergency room doors at breakneck speed. The fluorescent lights overhead blurred into streaks of white as they rushed me down the hallway. My shoulder throbbed with every bump and turn of the gurney. The pain was sharp and constant like someone had driven a hot spike through my flesh and left it there to burn.

Annabella ran alongside the stretcher, her hand gripping the metal rail. Her face was pale, streaked with tears and soot from the warehouse. "John, you're going to be okay," she said, her voice breaking. "You have to be okay."

"I'm fine," I managed through gritted teeth, though the blood soaking through the makeshift bandage she'd wrapped around my shoulder suggested otherwise. "You got Peter. That's all that matters."

"Don't," she said sharply. "Don't act like your life doesn't matter."

Our eyes met for a moment, and something passed between us—something neither of us could name or acknowledge. Not here. Not now. Not with everyt
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