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Quiet sobs broke him out of his thoughts. If nothing else, he was her doctor. And he would look after her. Even if that was all she’d ever want from him.
He followed the noises into the bathroom. Jack was sitting on the closed toilet with Maggie on his lap, facing him. Her face was pressed into his chest and he was rubbing his hand up and down her back.
His face looked . . . tortured.
As though every sound she made was tearing him apart.
“What’s going on? What’s wrong?” Ian asked. He crouched behind her, reaching out to touch her lightly.
“I wanted to get her into the shower, but she got agitated when I went to undress her.”
God. That made him feel ill. What had they done to her? He looked from Jack, who was busy murmuring something to her quietly, to Ian, who was staring at her in devastation.
Fuck. Were neither of them were going to talk to her about it?
Do something.
That’s what he was here for. To support them. Her. His own emotions didn’t come into it.
“Precious girl.”
He ignored Jack’s low warning noise as he shuffled around Ian’s legs so he could stand side-on to Maggie. Then he realized he was looming over her and kneeled instead.
Jack’s eyebrows rose.
Yes, he couldn’t remember a time he’d ever kneeled like this on a bathroom floor either.
But it didn’t matter. Maggie needed him.
“Look at me, Maggie.” He kept his voice low but firm.
“Jameson,” Ian said hesitantly. “This isn’t what she needs right now.”
“We need to know what was done to her in order to come up with the best possible care plan. We need to look after her.”
Both men were thankfully silent and Jameson turned to Maggie. At least she was looking at him.
“I know this is really hard and I’m sorry to have to do this so soon.” It would probably make her hate him more.
He had to make this right
First things first.
“They didn’t rape me.”
Jack’s body jolted as though a shot of electricity had gone through it. Jameson placed his hand on her back to steady her, then drew it away, not wanting to make things worse.
“That’s good, precious girl,” he replied, trying to keep his voice even. “Did they touch you in any way?”
“Well, obviously they had to touch me to beat the shit out of me,” she replied.
“I’m going to fucking eviscerate them. Tear their limbs from their bodies piece-by-piece,” Jack said through gritted teeth.
Maggie patted his chest. “That’s so kind.”
Jameson shared a look with Ian. That was kind? Obviously, she was still slightly out of it.
“There was a woman,” she said. “I saw her one other time in the bathroom at the hospital. By the cafeteria. When I was there getting tests. I heard one of the people at the place where they were holding me call her Nureel.”
