Rebirth of the Broken Luna A Second Chance at Luna's Heart novel Chapter 238

Chapter 238

“What are you talking about?’ Ollie pulled back, looking confused and frightened. “What bad people?”

Through the glass door, I could see Dr. Sloane approaching us with concern written all over her face. She thought I was having some

kind of breakdown, but she had no idea how much danger we were all in.

I looked back down at the parking lot and saw Bullet’s team moving toward the hospital entrance. They’d be upstairs in minutes,

maybe less if they used the stairs instead of waiting for elevators.

“Riley, come back inside,” Dr. Sloane called through the open door. “Let’s talk about what’s bothering you.”

I couldn’t explain it to her. Even if I had time, she wouldn’t believe me. Adults never believed children about really important things,

and by the time she figured out I was telling the truth, we’d all be dead.

There was only one choice.

1 grabbed the decorative vase from the small table on the balcony and, before I could think about what I was doing, I spun around

and brought it down hard against Dr. Sloane’s head as she crouched down to my level to reach for me.

She dropped like a stone, unconscious before she hit the ground.

Ollie screamed, jumping backward against the balcony railing. “Riley! What did you do?!”

“She’ll be okay,” I said quickly, though I wasn’t entirely sure that was true.

“But we have to go right now, or the bad people will hurt all of us.”

“What bad people?” Ollie was crying now, looking back and forth between Dr. Sloane’s motionless form and my face. “Riley, you’re

scaring me!”

I climbed up onto the balcony railing, balancing carefully as I looked down at the awning below. It was designed to catch things – rainwater, falling leaves, maybe the occasional dropped object from the upper floors. It should hold our weight long enough to slow our

fall.

“Trust me,” I said, holding out my hand to Ollie. “Please. I know this looks crazy, but I promise I’m trying to keep us safe.”

“I’m not jumping off a building!” Ollie said, backing away from me. “That’s insane!”

The lights in the hospital suddenly went out, plunging everything into darkness except for the emergency lighting that kicked in a few seconds later. In the red glow, I could hear screaming from somewhere in the building, along with sounds that made my skin crawl snarling, crashing, the kinds of noises that meant people were fighting for their lives.

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“They’re already inside,” I whispered, terror making my voice shake. “Ollie, please. We have to jump now.”

I could hear footsteps pounding up the stairwell, getting closer to our floor. Heavy boots moving fast, the way Bullet’s men always

moved when they were on a job.

“I can’t,” Ollie whimpered. “I’m too scared.”

There wasn’t time to convince him. I jumped down from the railing, grabbed Ollie around the waist, and hauled him up beside me

despite his struggles.

“Listen to me,” I said urgently, holding his face in my hands so he had to look at me. “The people coming for us killed people to get here. They smell like blood and violence, and they won’t hesitate to hurt you too. I know you’re scared, but jumping is the only way we

survive this.”

Through the glass door, I could see flashlight beams in the hallway. They’d reached our floor.

“On three,” I said, gripping Ollie’s hand tightly. “One… two…”

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The office door burst open, and Bullet’s silhouette filled the doorway, backlit by the emergency lighting in the hallway. He had a gun

in one hand and a flashlight in the other, and his eyes locked onto mine through the glass.

“Three!”

I pulled Ollie off the railing with me, both of us screaming as we fell toward the canvas awning below. The fall seemed to last forever, but it was probably only a few seconds before we hit the fabric with a loud tearing sound.

The awning caught us like I’d hoped, but it also ripped under our combined weight, sending us tumbling the rest of the way to the concrete below. I managed to twist my body so I landed first, cushioning Ollie’s fall as much as possible.

Pain shot through my shoulder and hip where I’d hit the ground, but nothing felt broken. Ollie was crying but moving, which meant

he was probably okay too.

I looked up at the balcony and saw Bullet leaning over the railing, his gun aimed down at us. For a few seconds, we just stared at

each other across the distance. I could see the cold calculation in his eyes, the way he was figuring out the best way to complete his job.

Then he raised his gun, and I knew we had maybe three seconds before he started shooting.

I grabbed Ollie’s hand and pulled him to his feet. “Run!”

We sprinted across the courtyard as the first gunshot cracked through the air behind us. The bullet struck the concrete where we’d

been lying just moments before, sending chips of stone flying.

More shots followed, but we’d made it behind a row of parked cars, using them as cover as we zigzagged toward the street. I could

hear Bullet shouting orders to his team, coordinating their pursuit.

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“Where are we going?” Ollie gasped, his short legs struggling to keep up with my longer strides.

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“Away from here,” I said, pulling him around the corner of the hospital building. “We need to find somewhere safe to hide until Mama

Lumina can find us.”

If Mama Lumina was still alive. The sounds I’d heard from inside the hospital suggested that Bullet’s team hadn’t come alone. They’d brought enough people and weapons to take on hospital security, which meant this wasn’t just a snatch-and-grab job.

This was a full-scale assault, and we were running through the middle of it with nowhere to go and no way to call for help.

But at least we were running. At least we weren’t trapped in that office, waiting for Bullet to finish what Mama Sophia had sent him to do. I remembered the phone call Mama Sophia had with Bullet that day, all I had to do now, was find Mama Sophia, and beg her to call

them off.

I’d saved us both, for now. The question was whether I could keep us alive long enough for someone to save us back.

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