Chapter 53


    “You’re wee to look at whatever you’d like.” Everything is in an underground warehouse a few


    miles away from here. I don’t take my work home.


    They walk away. Kelly is still quietly coughing next to me.


    “Are you going to jail?”


    “Not today, sweetheart.”


    An EMT is walking over to us.


    “She was the only one in the house when the fire started.”


    Kelly starts coughing again.


    “Can you walk?”


    Kelly nods, even though her eyes are watering.


    The EMT guides her into the ambnce. She puts an oxygen mask over Kelly’s nose and mouth. I


    follow. I don’t want to get in her way, but I’m going with them to the hospital.


    Chapter Fifteen


    Hospital


    Kelly


    The sirens are incredibly loud as they take me to the hospital. Iacopo has his hand in mine. I close my


    eyes.


    “Just breathe.” I don’t know if the EMT is talking to me or Iacopo. His grip is really tight, but I find it


    reassuring.


    Traveling at top speed in an ambnce gets us to the hospital in record time. Then we’re rolling into


    the emergency ward.


    “Smoke inhtion,” the EMT spits as I’m taken out of the ambnce.


    Iacopo is behind the EMT and the nurses who are looking at me.


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    There’s a crazy flurry of activity. I didn’t realize that smoke inhtion was life-threatening, because


    they’re acting as if I’m on the verge of death.


    It must be Iacopo. I can’t even keep track of everything going on, but I can see him behind all the


    medical professionals. There’s soot on him, but nobody has even tried to force him to clean up or get


    checked for smoke inhtion. I feel reassured with him there.


    Then the medical professionals seem to be done, because they leave me in the bed with an oxygen


    mask over my face. I can’t talk like this.


    Iacopo takes my hand.


    “I’m sorry,” he says, squeezing my hand gently. “You shouldn’t have been there. What’s going on


    between Ariana and me…it has nothing to do with you.” His jaw clenches. “And you should go home.”


    I try to pull my oxygen mask off so I can talk, but he keeps my mask on.


    So all I can do is look at him. I can see the fear on his face. It’s naked. I think that he’s thinking about


    what it would’ve been like if I died.


    What about my dad’s debt? He’s acting like I wasn’t there for a reason. Or maybe he thinks that


    inhaling some smoke is enough to pay it off.


    But I’m exhausted. I wonder if they’ve given me an anesthetic. I can feel myself drifting off. Iacopo’s


    hand is still in mine as I fall asleep.


    Chapter Sixteen


    Nonna’s Ring


    Iacopo


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