The Last Time I Cried Your Name novel Chapter 268

A strong hand pinned her wrist to the pillow.

Petty lost her balance and fell back into the softness behind her. She looked up straight into Franco’s dark eyes, swirling with something stormy and violent. His left cheek was smeared with her dark, dried blood, making him look even more intense and unhinged than usual.

His voice came out rough and low. “Let me put some medicine on it first.”

Petty tried yanking her hand away, but his grip didn’t budge. She kicked at him, aiming for his chest, but he just caught her thigh in his other hand. That move pulled him even closer until he was almost on top of her, broad shoulders blocking out the light. The shadows made his features look even sharper and colder.

He repeated, softer now but still firm, “Let me take care of it.”

Her eyes, red and swollen from crying, blazed up at him. “If you want to shoot me, just pull the trigger. Don’t play doctor with me.” Her tone was sharp and bitter. “Isn’t your aim supposed to be perfect? You could shoot a kidnapper’s head from a helicopter all the way across a field, but when it comes to me, the bullet just... misses? Why couldn’t you finish the job? Why couldn’t you just kill me with one shot?”

Her voice shook a little, words turning harsher as the ache in her throat grew.

Then she raised her voice, spitting the words out. “Laura couldn’t kill me, you might as well do it yourself. A little teamwork for your perfect ending, right?”

His hand around her wrist tightened enough to tremble. Franco looked at her with a stare even more intense than before, something more powerful than anger flickering there. “I won’t kill you.”

She tried to break free again, but he only pulled her closer, pressing her into his chest. He stared at her, cheeks streaked with tears, and his own face growing colder, harder by the second.

Ignoring every insult, he just repeated quietly, “Let me put medicine on the cut.”

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