The Runaway Groom
Chapter 950

Irene was starting to see double and her vision was starting to blur over all.

She muttered, "I'm so sleepy, Isaac..."

Isaac leaned down to kiss her cheek. "Nope. Don't sleep.”

"Yeah," she said ever so softly.

"Find the nearest hospital, Zachary!" Isaac barked right then.

Zachary searched the map, but there were none nearby, and he said, "I'l take a look at her!"

He was a doctor too—he could at least help her with first aid.

With that, Stan stopped the car by the road, while Zachary alighted and jumped in the backseat.

Once he was in, Stan continued driving while Zachary checked on Irene's injury.

The bullet that hit her on the shoulder was embedded deeply, and she was still bleeding endlessly.

He took off his clothes and held it down with his teeth to tear a chunk out, and then tore off the sleeve as well.

He then raised Irene's arm and fashioned the sleeve into a tourniquet, tying it from her underarm up to her shoulder, just an inch away from the bullet wound. He then tore out another chunk of fabric and tied it over her arm.

It would stop her bleeding.

Irene then brought out the scalpel she carried around for self-defense and held it out at Zachary.

Zachary understood her intention but refused. "You've bled too much— the bullet might have hit an artery. Taking it now might cause massive hemorrhage, and we have nothing else to use in the car to stop it. The bleeding is stopping a little too, so just hold on for now."

"Okay," she murmured feebly, her lips sickly pale as she worked hard to summon her strength.

However, her eyelids were failing her and kept drooping!

"Isaac," she called out softly. “I'm cold. Hold me."

Isaac put his arms firmly around her right then, and her body felt so tender he might crush her if he was a little too strong!

"Just hold on," Zachary said, but Irene did not respond this time.

She did not even have the strength to talk now!

Zachary was certainly anxious, but it was not until an hour later that Stan got off the highway, entered a city, and started to look for a hospital.

"A pharmacy would do!" Zachary told Stan.

Zachary had a scalpel, so he could get the bullet out for Irene, and he did not do it yet because she would need medicine too.

"Got it," Stan said.

Zachary also whipped out his phone to scan through the maps for hospitals or pharmacies, but there were none in the fringes of the city. Clinics would not be marked on the map either, so they had to make do with a pharmacy.

Finding one, he showed Stan his phone. "There, a pharmacy.”

Stan glanced at it and nodded, while Zachary told Irene softly, "Just a little longer, Irene. We're reaching a pharmacy soon.”

Irene could only bat her eyelids in response.

"Yeah," she murmured very softly.

The road to the pharmacy was broad, though there was considerably more traffic.

However, that also meant they were much safer.

After quite a while, they arrived at the pharmacy and stopped outside. Zachary got out and went in to buy all the medicine needed before returning to help Irene extract the bullet!

"Stop the car," he told Stan—with the car still moving, he might miss his mark when he used the scalpel.

That would wound Irene further while impeding his effort to extract the bullet.

"Okay. Don't worry, just do what you must,” Stan told Zachary as he turned off the engine while keeping an eye out for danger!

Zachary held out a packet of pills at Irene just then. "Sorry. They only have Vicodin."

It was a painkiller, and it was far less effective than anesthetics, which completely dulled the senses. sᴇaʀᴄh thᴇ Find_Nøvel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

"Just bear with it for now," he said, stuffing the pill into Irene’s mouth. Irene swallowed, and murmured, "Yeah."

Zachary then disinfected the bullet wound first, cleaning the blood and clot around the wound. Then, he found the precise spot of entry and thrusted the scalpel inside.

Snikt!

There was a hair-raising sound as the blade cut into Irene's flesh.

She felt a sharp pain right then that seemed to strike her very core, causing her fingers to clench!

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