"Lucia!" I could feel someone tapping my cheek. "Wake up Lucia.." The voice was familiar. "Lucia, please wake up."

My eyes fluttered open and my gaze focused on Xander. He had a strange look in his eyes, after seeing me wake up his eyes relaxed a bit and he took sigh of relief. Why does he look like his worried about me? He couldn't be worried about me, I'm nothing to him.

"Can you see me? Is your vision okay?" He asked and I nodded. He rested his head on my shoulder and only then I realized I was in his arms as he crouched on the wooden floor.

"Is Mary okay?"

He smiled. "Yup."

My heart skipped a beat. He smiled. He can actually smile like that. His actually really handsome. Wow!

"Uncle! the doctor is here." I heard Mary run over to me and hugged me when she saw me awake. "Lucia!!! You can't die!"

I chuckled, "I'm not dying."

"But you are injured!"

I actually felt numb a while ago but now that I'm conscious I could feel the pain kick in. None of the injuries were serious but I was scratched all over because when that man fired a bullet at me, it ended up hitting the full length of the mirrors stand that fell on me. I was already hurt when he slapped my face and I ended up hitting the counter edge. But my head didn't bleed. I just got bruises.

Xander picked me up and took me to my room where the doctor and the nurse tended to my wounds. They told me it was nothing to worry about and the cuts and scratches will heal within a week or so.

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