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.
happened?” one of them
see Ava hesitate
were trying to escape. I tried to stop the bleeding as best as
time went by and finally lost–consciousness.” Her eyes were trained
she going to be alright?” she asked, her voice full of
I’ve come to love about her. Emma has been nothing but horrible to
but that d
from worrying about her. She was a fucking angel, and
me this long to
is a bit weak, but she’ll be okay once we
They wheel her away.
asks her. The concern
Her answer comes out in a low voice as she struggles to
needs you
before bending down to kiss her cheeks.
away. Otherwise, her reception would have been entirely
and I give Gabe the signal
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after watching her struggle
please” she answers, looking at me
bend dow, and pick her up. Hugging her
her normal fire backing it up. It goes to show
to me. It felt right with her in my arms like this. Like everything in the fucking universe was aligning itself. If
with her to my car, I can’t help but wonder. I’ve never allowed myself to be this close to her. To hold her, hug her or kiss her. I
my soul?
my car
at him. Couldn’t he fucking
get most of the Reapers, but Reaper himself escaped” he says,
news.
The fact that he keeps evading us makes me
As long as he was still out there, none of those
him” I snap before
car and gently drop Ava in the front seat. Buckling her up, I get in and begin
the hospital.
we going?”
Make sure you and
It doesn’t take us long to get to the hospital. By the
my car before waking her up. I didn’t mind carrying her, but I also know that nurses
to
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are here” I say when she opens her
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into my arms and carry her in. As soon as the nurses notice us, they drag a wheel chair towards
take care of her and call you immediately we have news” they assure me when I refuse to
I slowly put her down on
my parents” she tells
I don’t
the hospital.
my parents to check up on Noah. The moment I got the call from Ronny, I asked them to pick him up. Once I make sure that he’s safe I head towards the waiting room
Travis and Kate.
I ask sitting
“Not yet” Travis answers.
doing? Where is she?” Kate asks
just to make sure everything is fine”
silence after that. Being here reminds me of everything that happened after James died. It reminded me of how I was overcome with emotion after seeing Emma again
nine years.
been so surreal. In that moment, I had gone back in time. Back to the time when she meant the
of when Ava got shot. She had been standing right next to me, yet I had dived for Emma instead. Ava became different after that event. It’s like the Ava we knew
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