Dear Soldier, Put Your Gun Down novel Chapter 9

Matt and Winona saw a man whose head was bleeding dragging a female army doctor who had a medicine box with her.

“Son of bitch! I’ll take you there even if I have to tie you up!”

The woman struggled, “Draiso has their picked soldiers ahead of us. If we go there, we will be asking for death!”

Matt snapped, “Kevin, what’s this about?”

“Matt, Samuel got two shots near his heart, yet he lost too much blood to move around, so we have to take a doctor to him to operate the surgery.”

The woman trembled in fear, “I’m not going there! I’m not! I want to go home.”

Kevin put his gun against the woman’s head, “Say it again, and I’ll put the bullet in your head!”

The woman couldn’t help wetting her pants, quivering.

“Take me instead. It’s a delicate job to take out the bullet from the chest. I don’t think she is in a proper condition to perform the surgery.”

“Thank you, Winona, for doing this for Samuel.”

Matt pulled Winona to the operation room and started to rip off her clothes.

She scolded him with her teeth gritted, “Matt Snider, you bastard! How could you do this when your man is dying?”

He took off his tailor-made bulletproof vest and wrapped it around her body, looking grim, “The artillery is everywhere. Be careful.”

As the commander of the whole legion, he couldn’t leave here.

His warmth on the vest seemed to have cracked her heart. Somehow, she was flustered to have such a feeling.

Matt sent her into Kevin’s car and said, “Take Samuel's place in the mission. Remember to take him back alive!”

Kevin patted his chest and said, “No problem, sir!”

Matt then glanced at Winona and added, “Winona, too! Or I’ll make you pay for your failure!”

Kevin chuckled, thinking to himself that Matt either didn’t have women around him or spoiled his girl as much as he could.

Something seemed to occur to Matt. He untied the medal around his neck and put it on Winona's neck, “My mother got this to keep me safe.”

It was just a square silver medal engraved with blessings, but Winona had a feeling that it was too valuable to take.

“You believe that, too?”

“Not really before, but I have faith in it from now on.”

Her heart seemed to be struck by something. She froze for a moment and then kissed his cheek.

“Goodbye, Matt. Consider this kiss a return for your caring for me in the last few days,” she thought.

When the car started, he stood still, raising his hand to touch the spot she kissed. But he gave up in the end for fear that he might ruin it.

Love was such a magical thing to let people drown willingly.

Winona kept staring into the rearview mirror until the figure became a dot and finally faded.

She had to admit that she seemed to have feelings for Matt right now. After all, she never really fancied anyone before.

Although she and Benjamin were in a relationship before, he was more like a big brother to her. He brought her warmth, but it had nothing to do with love.

However, she still believed that she should get back to Benjamin. She could see her future with him, which was good for both her and Aileen. But with Matt, she could neither see him through nor control anything.

“Winona, I admire your love for Matt.”

Winona smiled, “Well, he’s my man.”

Kevin looked at her stealthily and patted his head. “That’s weird. You look familiar to me. Have we met before? I can’t remember where.”

Winona didn’t take it seriously. As the lady of the Winston family, she was sometimes on TV with her father even if she was mostly a blurred figure.

The car traversed the dense forest and gunfire. Soon, they came to their destination.

There were several bodies lying on the ground with blood all over. They could hear the gunfire and the roar of airplanes.

Several soldiers set up a makeshift tent out of branches, and a man lay dying on the ground, his face bloodstained.

Kevin strode over to hold the man’s hand, “Samuel, stay with me!”

He couldn’t help shedding tears.

Winona took the scalpels, hemostats, plasma bags, bandages, and some other things out of the medical kit.