My choice
Rowan
I can’t explain the fear I felt when I saw the bastard pointing a gun at her head. She was shaking,
and tears were falling down her face. I heard as she pleaded with him to spare her, but I knew he
wouldn’t.
When she closed her eyes. As if accepting her fate. It nearly brought me to my fucking knees. If it
wasn’t for the fact that I knew she was tired, I would have spared the man just so I could give him
my own personal version of torture.
“She needs a doctor, Rowan” she says in a small voice as I kneel down before her.
I had already texted Gabe. The ambulance would be here in minutes. It’s not that I didn’t care for
Emma; I did. I just cared for Ava more. (2)
I take her face gently into my hands. Her cheek was swollen, and so was her eye. It had already bruised, and her lip was split.
My face hardened at the thought of someone laying their hands on her.
“Who hit you? Was it Ronny” I ask through clenched teeth.
She winces when I run my hand down her bruised cheek. Fuck! Her pain made my heart constrict.
I wanted nothing more than to kill the bastard who hurt her.
“It doesn’t matter… We need to get Emma to a hospital” she says as she begins to stand up.
I push her down gently and continue to inspect her. Totally ignoring what she said. Her wrists were bleeding, and her ankles were swollen and bruised.
The more I took in her wounds, the angrier I got. She shouldn’t have to go through this. Especially not when she was fucking pregnant.
“Rowan, are you not listening to me” Her tone is exasperated, and I know if it weren’t for the fact that she was tired and hurt, she would have thrown a few choice words at me.
“I’m listening, and the ambulance will be here.” I answer. “Now tell me who hurt you.”
She lets out a deep long breath. Sagging in relief against the car
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It was one of Ronny’s men. He hit me when I talked back at him” she tells me tiredly.
“Give me a facial description”
I was going to find the bastard. No one. I mean, no one gets away with hurting Ava. He was going
to regret the day he was fucking born.
It doesn’t matter. When I escaped, he found us first. I kneed him in the balls, then shot both his
thighs
I can’t help the small smile that forms on my lips. I liked this side of Ava. Loved that she was no
longer willing to take crap from anyone.
Before I could ask why she thought escaping was a good idea, we heard the sirens, shouts, and
shots. Gabe, Travis, and the paramedic reach us moments later.
The paramedics take Emma from Ava’s lap before placing her on a stretcher.
one of them
Ava hesitate
trying to escape. I tried to stop the bleeding as best as I could,
went by and finally lost–consciousness.” Her
she going to be alright?” she
things I’ve come to love about her. Emma
but that d
worrying about her. She was a
me this long to figure
pulse is a bit weak, but she’ll be okay
They wheel her away.
you okay, Ava?” Travis asks her. The concern in
out in a low voice as she struggles to get up. “Go,
needs you
nods his head before bending down to kiss her cheeks. I know it’s from
doesn’t push him away. Otherwise, her reception would
leaves, and I give Gabe the signal to follow
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I question after watching her
she answers, looking at
Hugging her
I needed help standing up, not being carried” Her argument lacks her normal fire
her in my arms like this. Like everything in the fucking universe was
be this close to her. To hold her, hug her or kiss her. I always held a part of myself
my soul?
getting to my
he fucking see that
able to get most of the Reapers, but Reaper himself
news.
to pound someone. The fact that he
long as he was still out there, none of those I care about
fucking find him” I
the front seat. Buckling her up, I get in and begin driving
the hospital.
we going?”
checked. Make sure you and the baby
acceptance before leaning back against the seat. It doesn’t take us long
waking her up. I didn’t mind carrying her,
her to
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when
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arms and carry her in. As
her and call you immediately we have news” they assure me
her down on the
tells me before they wheel her
she’s out of sight, I do exactly that. I don’t say a lot. Just demand that they come
the hospital.
got the call from Ronny, I asked them to pick him up. Once I make sure that he’s safe I head towards the
Travis and Kate.
I ask sitting
“Not yet” Travis answers.
Where is she?” Kate asks with
just to
me of everything that happened after James died. It reminded me of how I was
nine years.
so surreal. In that moment, I had gone back in time. Back to the time when she meant the world to me.
for Emma instead. Ava became different after that event. It’s like the Ava
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