Page 316 of Icy Cold Death

There was a plastic bag over her head, and Bishop ripped it away as she went hard.

Beside her, Genesis called for an ambulance, and as she did, Tori threw her doors wide open to find the woman’s ghost if it hadn’t crossed.

That would be a good indicator of how long she was down.

Standing above the woman was her spirit. She was looking around confused.

Tori knew it was minutes.

This woman was only dead for a couple of them.

“Go back into your body! Fight!” Tori said. “You have to go back to your body!”

The woman blinked.

“Am I dead?” she asked as Bishop worked damn hard to breathe life back into her. She was alternating between chest compression and breathing for her.

She could feel the cracking of her broken ribs, as she fought to save her.

Tori needed her to understand.

“Just go back into your body. She’s trying to save you! You don’t want to be dead!”

“Come on!” Bishop said as she was back to pressing on the woman’s chest.

When Genesis got off of the phone, she dropped and tried to help by taking over the mouth-to-mouth to help Bishop out.

Tori pointed.

“NOW! Get into your goddamn body!” she ordered, hoping the woman would do just that.

Her dead were doing the same thing, urging her to return to her body.

She only had seconds before the light appeared. Once it did, she was officially dead.

The woman stared down at herself, and for some miracle, she actually listened.

She stepped onto herself, and began sinking down into her prone form.

Tori’s dead confirmed it.

“She’s going to make it,” Bethany said. “She’s coming back.”

Just as it was out of her mouth, the woman gasped, and Bishop rested her hands on her thighs as she tried to catch her own breath.

“Where am I?” the woman asked, looking around confused and scared.

Bishop stared down at her.

“You’re in the parking lot of the park. What the hell happened?”

The woman began crying, and they knew why. She’d just cheated death by seconds. Had they been a minute later, this woman would have been gone.

Lucian and Ridge had been right about going into the static and trying to build power with the metaphysical sex.

It had just saved this woman’s life.

The static had given him the edge, and that made all the difference in the world.

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