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Chapter 1016 Please Save Her
Chapter 1016 Please Save Her
Chapter 1016 Please Save Her
What would typically be an hour-long drive was forcefully condensed into forty minutes. Along the way, Jack learned more distressing news… Charlotte had been kidnapped, and Mandy was gravely injured, her fate uncertain. Jack stumbled his way into the hospital. Perhaps the desperation on his face was so evident that it drew the attention of many around him. But at that moment, Jack ignored their gaze. He ran straight to the surgery room, noticing medical staff going in and out. Jack stopped a nurse and asked, “Is Mandy…?” Upon hearing Mandy’s name, the nurse looked at him with sympathy. “Miss Swift was shot. While the bullet didn’t hit a vital spot, she’s lost a lot of blood and has damage to some internal organs…” The nurse didn’t finish her sentence, but Jack had already grasped the implication.
He took a step back and deeply bowed to the nurse in gratitude. The nurse was taken aback, quickly sidestepping his gesture. “What are you doing?” “Please, do everything you can, at any cost, to save her,” Jack said, looking intently into the nurse’s eyes. The grief in his gaze made the nurse shudder. She let out a soft sigh, “Don’t worry. We’ll do everything we can to save the patient. You two won’t be separated like this.” With that, she rushed into the emergency room, leaving Jack alone outside the operating room, staring blankly at the door. From daylight to dusk, Jack seemed immersed in a silent mime. He was deaf to all the sounds around him, and all his emotions were tied to that door. The surgery took a long time, almost ten hours, before the exhausted medical staff emerged.
Jack approached them immediately. The lead surgeon smiled at him. “She is safe.” Jack’s tensed muscles relaxed at that moment, his eyes brimming with tears. He bowed deeply to the medical team. “Thank you all…” The doctor quickly helped him up. “We just did our part. Her will to live is very strong. She’s fighting too.” Jack paused for a moment, then responded with a hoarse voice, “She… Is a born fighter.” Not long after the doctors and nurses left, Mandy was wheeled out of the operating room. Even though he was mentally prepared, seeing Mandy’s pale and lifeless face made Jack’s heart wrench painfully. He had seen Mandy in her many charming moods, had seen her pretending to be upset, and even witnessed her showing her tough side. But in each of those instances, Mandy was full of life. Unlike now, she seemed as if something had drained the energy out of her, like she might slip away from him any second… “Let me do it,” Jack said, taking the mobile bed from the nurse and carefully pushing Mandy toward the ICU. As he reached the entrance, he wanted to follow her in but was stopped by the nurse. “Although her surgery was successful, the bullet grazed several of her organs. She’s not out of danger yet. You’ll have to wait outside.” Jack stood by the glass, watching the nurse take Mandy into the room. Even though they were in the same space, they seemed worlds apart, unable to reach each other.