Then I really knew pain. A torment that’d have no fucking end.
Reece sat next to my friends with Joss across his lap, holding her against his chest. She wasn’t fucking moving.
Bobo was leaning his front paws on her legs. He barked. Then again. Like he was calling her back.
Couldn’t get my arms to work like I wanted. I rolled onto my stomach. My head hurt so fucking much I almost passed out.
Blink, blink, blink the fuzz away. The red was here to stay.
I pushed with my legs, slid across something sharp. Didn’t care.
My dad yelled at me not to move. Cared even less. He called to others for help.
All anyone needed to do was helpher.
Joss.
My dream girl.
Love of my life.
I held up my heavy-ass thumping head, pushed with my legs some more. It hurt. Fuck, did it hurt. Eventually my arms worked a little. Like a fucking seal, I dragged myself toward her.
Bobo barked. Made my ears ring. My head was a fuzzy ball of pain.
Blink, blink.More red. More hurt.
Joss was closer. I made my flippers work for me. Sliding. Dragging. Heaving. Crunching over shit.
Then I was close enough to touch her. My dad yelled atme again. Reece did too. Bobo barked. My ears rang. My head squeezed and thumped and was about to fucking explode.
I ordered my arm to reach out, and the fucker didn’t. I got my head up on her leg. My head might roll the fuck off, but I kept it there. My red vision swam.
“Joss,” I tried, but couldn’t hear myself.
I said into our link.
Damn. Even there, too soft if at all.
My vision blurred. Everything was red. Everything hurt.
I screamed into our bond.
Reece shouted at Bobo. Tried to wave him away from Joss.
Bobo jumped up. Pounded down on her chest, nailing her tits.
She gasped for air like she’d been drowning. Sat straight up. Jerked the leg my head was on. Smacked Reece on the chin.
I was falling. Falling. Falling. My head was tipping.
Her eyes popped open.
I held the fuck on just to see them.
She turned them on me.
Even red, they were the most beautiful eyes I’d ever fucking seen.
