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
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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…”
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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
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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