Mama I'm in love with a criminal

Chapter - 25 The loss

Hiram’s POV:

Sometimes things happen so fast that you don’t have time to realise let alone analyze it.

It was just seconds ago that I was mad at Luna, for being unreasonable, and then when I saw her running towards me, I felt happy.

In a blink of an eye, everything changed. She is in my arms, blood oozing out of her wounds and I just stand there, blank.

I have killed so many people in my life, death has never scared me. I have been faced with death countless time and never been scared once.

Yet today, I feel like if something happens to her, I will die, and I am scared. I don’t want her to die.

Tears start streaming down my face and I just hold her close to me, embracing her. Police barges in catches the shooter and I still can’t let go her.

I know I should probably call an ambulance, get her to a doctor, but my brain has stopped functioning.

Thankfully people around me called the ambulance and soon she was sent to the hospital, and it was then that I realized that he has been shot too.

James has been shot too. I sit on the cold chairs of the lobby as they perform complex surgeries on my friend and my lo.....Luna.

I keep tapping my foot and biting my nails. The doctors and nurses keep rushing out and in of ICU. I try to stop them and ask for updates, but nobody pays any heed to my requests.

I get up from my seat and walk towards the nearest church and for the first time in my life, I kneel. I kneel before someone, someone I have never seen, someone I have never believed in, yet I kneel today and beg for my friend and Luna’s life.

I stand up after a minute or two and sit on one of the benches, thinking how times have changed. I was working in James restaurant to keep my identity clean and I was living in Luna’s house because…….I wanted to kill her and now when she is fighting for a her life with every passing second it feels like I am dying.

“God, I promise you, if you heal Luna and James, if you keep them safe, I will walk out from their life. I would do anything. I would…..I would give up the one thing for which I tried to survive in this world, the one thing that kept me going, the thing I wanted the most in my life, I will give up my revenge, just please heal her.”

When I finally walk back and reach the hospital. I realize God has its own way of listening to you. The doctors tell me that Luna is safe and out of danger but also that I have lost my friend James, forever