*** Rylee’s POV *** * “Ryder, are you hurt?” I ask him as soon as I reach him and dad comes closer as well to take a look. I feel a knot in my throat as I look at him and when I think about losing him. One day you are laughing and joking with each other and the next day he is laying on the ground in his own blood, barely conscious. “He got a bullet in his abdomen, call the ambulance and the police right away.” Dad says and Aunt Dyna is on the phone in a second. I take off my cardigan and push it on his wound with shaking hands to slow down the bleeding. “Rylee….” Ryder calls out to me weakly. His voice is barely a whisper and I see blood coming out of his mouth. My heart is aching from the sight of him in this state. I know what he did, but people change and I would do anything just to