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

Ava hesitate a little before

got shot while we were trying to escape. I tried to stop the bleeding

and finally lost–consciousness.” Her eyes were trained on

she going to be alright?” she asked, her voice full of

to love about her. Emma has

but that d

was a fucking angel, and

taken me this long to figure

bit weak, but she’ll

They wheel her away.

her. The concern

answer comes out in a low voice as she struggles to get up.

needs you

kiss her cheeks. I know

she doesn’t push him away. Otherwise, her reception would have been entirely

Gabe

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after watching her struggle to get

she answers, looking

and pick her up. Hugging her

being carried” Her argument lacks her normal fire backing it up. It

answer. Just pull her closer to me. It felt right with her in my arms like this. Like everything in the fucking universe was aligning itself. If I could stay like this forever, then it’s a fate I

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 always held a part of myself hidden from her. So it makes me wonder if, had I allowed myself, would it have felt like this?

my soul?

to my car when Brian

him. Couldn’t he fucking see that I was

get most of the Reapers, but Reaper himself escaped” he

news.

someone. The fact that he keeps

still out there, none of those I care

find him” I snap before

gently drop Ava in the front seat. Buckling her up, I get in and begin

the hospital.

are we going?”

Make sure you and the baby are

back against the seat. It doesn’t take us

park my car before waking her up. I didn’t mind carrying

to answer

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here” I say when

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she can jump down. I take her into my arms and carry her in. As soon as the nurses

sir, we’ll take care of her and call you immediately we have news” they assure me when I refuse to let her

her down on

call my parents” she tells

sight, I do exactly that. I

the hospital.

call my parents to check up on Noah. The moment I got the call from Ronny, I asked them to pick him up.

Travis and Kate.

news?” I ask sitting

“Not yet” Travis answers.

Where is she?” Kate

for checkup just to

of everything that happened after James

nine years.

moment, I had gone back in time. Back to the time when she meant the world to me. I

next to me, yet I had dived for Emma instead. Ava became different after that event. It’s like the Ava we knew had died and a new one had been born. I’ll never forget how

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