Page 110 of Bullseye

“But she will wake up, right?”

“Lucas,” Nurse Jessica softly said, coming closer to me. “Kitty isn’t going to wake up. The bullet did too much damage. She’s gone, Lucas. There’s no way to fix her. I am so sorry.”

Shaking my head, I took a step back.

They were lying.

She was alive.

She was still warm.

I could hear her heartbeat.

Her chest was still moving.

She wasn’t dead.

She was alive!