Chapter Forty-Seven
Candace
I fall apart the second Tristan starts to resuscitate Dominic.
He’s not breathing.
Massimo is on the phone talking to the paramedics.
I’m trying to pull myself together, but I can’t.I don’t know what to do.
Dominic's life is slipping away from him.Away from me. I can't stop it.
“Kid. Fucking come on, breathe.Dom!” Tristan shouts, but Dominic isn’t breathing and there’s so much blood.
There’s just so much blood pouring out of his wound.
“They’re on their way,” Massimo says, joining us on the ground.
Tristan continues with his compressions and rescue breaths, but nothing is happening.
“Dominic, please,” I plead. “Please, come back.” My voice is so weak there’s barely a sound when I speak.
I remember when I was shot, it felt like I was being pulled out of my body.Then it got to a stage where I couldn’t feel anything anymore.
Dominic's still not breathing.That means he's crossed that line and gone over to the shadows.All because he was trying to protect me, just like he said he would.
God, please...
He can’t die. He can’t.
I look at the beautiful man who loved me lying on the ground.He looks so lifeless, yet the strong presence of the boy I love is still there.
I can’t lose him. I can’t.
Tristan’s hands shake, and he shakes his head too.
“He’s….” A tear runs down Tristan’s cheek.
“No, don’t you dare say it. He’ll come back,” I wail.
“Candace.” Massimo tries to reach for me but I swat his hands away.
“No, leave me.” I move forward and take over from Tristan, pumping hard into Dominic’s chest.
Tears blind me, but I keep going.“Dominic, come back to me. You said you’d try.Try now.” I’m screaming and crying and trying, refusing to give up.
Too many minutes have gone by.I know that. But I can’t give up.
“My angel, come back to me,” I scream.
Energy fills me and one hard punch to his chest fueled with everything I have inside me makes him gasp for breath.
His breath comes out staggered, but it’s there.
He’s alive.
The paramedics come at that moment and take over.Dominic’s eyes open. He looks at me briefly then his eyes close.He’s then taken into the ambulance and we follow.