“Josh, is he alert?”
“Yes.”
“Is he bleeding?”
I laughed.
“She stabbed him. She fucking stabbed him.”
“Josh, focus on the road. Where are you?”
“His hands are cold, Sam.”
Just like Jolie’s were when I found her.
“Josh, where are you?”
His hands were so cold. Why weren’t mine helping?
“Joshua.” Sam’s firm voice pulled me away from holding my dead sister’s cold hands.
“Blocks away,” I finally answered.
“Josh, concentrate on the road. I will be outside the emergency room waiting.”
I ended the call without a word because suddenly I felt Andrew’s hands relax. He wasn’t squeezing my hand anymore.
“Hey!” I yelled.
“Hmm?” Andrew replied with a pained tone.
“We’re almost there.”
Don’t you fucking die on me.
“Okay, hurry.”
As soon as I pulled into the parking lot, I sped to the covered temporary parking outside the emergency room. Sam was standing outside with two nurses. I put the SUV in park, and by the time I raced around to the passenger door, Sam and the nurses had Andrew already out of the vehicle and on the gurney. I quickly followed behind them, trying to help.
“He said she threw beer steins at him, and he was stabbed in a few places. I couldn’t check everywhere, but there looked like a few wounds on his chest, arm, and wrists.” I sidestepped through the second set of sliding doors. “The metal from the cuffs dug into the skin. So be careful pulling those off.”
When we turned the corner and entered the emergency room, James saw us and jogged over.James!
“Get him started right away on oxygen, and let’s find the places he’s bleeding from,” Sam instructed the two nurses as he came to a stop and put his hand on my chest.
James walked alongside the nurses and took hold of Andrew’s hand. “Josh. Look at me, Josh.”
I pulled my eyes away from Andrew and James and looked in Sam’s brown eyes.
“Thank you for bringing him in. Are you okay?”
“Yes! It’s him! Can’t you go help him?”
“I will, but I needed to check on you first while they start him on an I.V.”
“Why? I’m not the one with the stab wounds!”
“Because you are under my care too. After learning about your sister, I think this probably scraped some things open.”
