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It lands, and it lands hard. I hear something crack, and then Ben is on his knees on the ground, howling like a damned banshee, covering his face as blood drips onto the floor.
A door opens down the hall.
The old woman closes it again quickly when she sees us.
For a second, my stomach starts to churn.
God, I hope she’s not calling the cops.
Then, I get mad.
What do I care if she does?
Ben’s the one who’s in the wrong here.
Gus punched him because he was going to hurt me.
I don’t honestly know if Ben would have hit me or crashed into me or screamed in my face.
The level of emotion he’s showing right now is way beyond anything he ever showed me in the past.
“Go inside,” Gus tells me, his voice hard.
I blink at him. “What? No.”
He’s so full of rage right now, all of it directed at my idiot ex who’s already bleeding on the ground.
What we’ve got right now, we can explain.
Explanations won’t mean a thing if Gus kills him, accidentally or not.
“Go inside,” Gus says again, growling at me now.
I shake my head and touch his arm. “I just found you. I’m not letting you go to prison over this idiot, Gus. We’re both going inside, and we’re calling the police to report him for trying to break in and for trying to assault me.”
I step past Ben as he groans on the ground, blood dripping from his nose.
“I hope that fucking hurt,” I tell him as I pass. “You deserve worse.”
Unlocking the door, I take Gus by the hand and lead him into my apartment.
He lets out a sigh once we’re inside, and I can tell he’s still trying to cool down.
I lock the door, and Ben starts shrieking out there.
The sudden abrasive sound makes me jumpy.
There’s a loud bang a minute later, and Gus glances out the peephole.
“He kicked the door, I think,” he says.
“It’s smart to call the cops, right?” I ask.
He nods after a second of hesitation. “Might as well do it before he reports me for assault.”
“I’m so sorry about this,” I tell him, feeling terrible that he might get a criminal charge, basically because of me. I’m about to dig Scarlett’s phone out of her purse when I notice his hand is bleeding.
His knuckles are scraped.
