Chapter 6

I watched her as she held on to her stomach as she coughed till she fell to the ground but not unconscious .

“What have you done?” I asked her angrily.

“You can’t kill him, he didn’t betray you… I did and if anyone is to be punished, I should be” she said and I couldn’t make out from what she was saying.

I turned only to see that the man for whom she had taken a bullet was taking for his heels. I scoffed, “coward”. He couldn’t go far before my guards caught up with him and I signaled for them to lock him up in a room before tapping Kathryn.

“Get the doctor now!” I yelled at them and they went to call the doctor before I carried her in my arms. What had I done? I knew she was strong and couldn’t be killed by a mere bullet but since it’d hit her in a sensitive spot, I doubted she was going to make it.

“Be strong Kathryn, I beg you. Be strong, don’t die” I told her as I saw that she was losing a lot of blood and at this point, I knew I sounded nothing like