“Karl come on, let’s get you to the-”
“Don’t have time-,” he starts but is interrupted by Dominik’s car parking outside. I run and hug Dominik, before I ask for Aiden; Damian and Rian are already taking him to the infirmary.
“Are you hurt?” I ask Dominik checking his clothes for blood, and I find some near his collarbone.
“I’m fine, it’s not mine, ma Vie. How’s your father? Karl told me about everything,” Dominik says and only then do I notice Karl also heard the corrupt guard’s words.
“Karl had to knock him out, but I think there was no damage,” I say and Josh looks at me, “Can you take Dad to the infirmary just in case?”
“Why did you knock him out?” Josh asks but thankfully Sammy comes to the rescue.
“She had to. Come on, I’ll take you to him,” Sammy says and Josh moves with his nonchalant vibe that makes you want to hurt him, just so you can get a reaction from him.
“I don’t need an escort-”
“Too bad, you have one,” Sammy states entering the house with Josh beside her. Dominik touches my hand, my right hand, a gun falls to the ground from my left hand. Why was I still holding it?
“What’s the gun for?” Dominik asks, lifting my chin with his hand so that I’m facing him.
“My father was in danger, I didn’t have a choice,” I say and stop when Dominik falls to one knee. “Let’s get you inside. You need to rest.”
“I got him!” Marcus exclaims, putting Dominik’s arm around his shoulder supporting most of Dominik’s weight. Marcus is a big puff guy so it’s no struggle. I follow them and thank Marcus when he helps Dominik sit on our room’s bed. Marcus lets me inside and closes the door behind him when walking out.
“Are you ok?” I ask Dominik, he doesn’t reply. “Should I call a doctor?”
“I’m fine. I just don’t understand... how did I let this happen?-”
“You can’t foresee and control everything. That’s impossible. And no one died. You saved Aiden, and Karl is just hurt on his leg,” I say having no clue of the severity of Aiden’s and Karl’s injuries.
“I hope you’re right,” Dominik says tapping his finger on the bed beneath him.
“Want a bath?” I ask moving to the bathroom to turn on the air conditioner, clueless about what to do.
“I got it,” Dominik says and I let him pass by my side, tapping on his leg and closing the bathroom doorbehind him. “Tell me if you need anything,” I scream at the door to no response.
Chapter 24
Love
When I don’t hear any sound but the water for one hour, I decide to come in. It’s not like I haven’t seen him naked before. I’m scared he’s hurt and hiding it. “Dom?” I call when I see Dominik stand against the wall of the shower, his fists clenched leaning against the blood-filled wall. “Dom?” I try again and nothing. I move towards him, my legs shaking, not because I fear him, yet because I fear what he might do to himself in this state. “Dominik, it’s me, Love. Let’s get you out of here-”
I don’t have time to reply, Dominik holds me lethargically between him and the wall. “I failed you,” Dominik whispers his eyes fixated on the wall. He’s about to punch the wall when I put my hand in front of it, Dominik’s hands hit mine, fast but not strongly. My knuckles hit the wall, and it hurts. “What the hell were you thinking, cherry?” Dominik asks, his eyes full of concern. He checks my hand for injuries and takes a deep relievedsigh when he sees it intact.
“You’re back,” I try to hug him but he pushes me away. “Dom, I didn’t want you to hurt yourself more,” I say and he looks at his hands.
“Fuck,” he curses under his breath, going out of the shower and grabbing some gauze to clean his half-open skin.
“Fuck indeed,” I say and take my clothes off, not to flood the floor with water, before getting out of the shower cubicle. I hug Dominik by his side before taking the gauze from his hands and pressing it against his knuckles with some antiseptic. “You don’t remember it?” I ask Dominik while I’m bandaging his wounds. I feel a sadistic mixed feeling, when I notice Dominik’s face isn’t hiding the pain. He’s back. The Dominik I love is back.
“I remember feeling angry and getting in the shower. The only thing I remember after is almost hurting you. Never do that again. Let me fucking destroy myself if needed, but don’t come along,” Dominik says and I see he doesn’t get it.
“You don’t get it, do you?” I start and take a deep breath, Dominik looks intently at me as if he’s trying to take the words out of my mind. “If you hurt yourself, you’re hurting me! You and me? There’s no difference. If you laugh, I laugh. If you cry, I cry. If you try to destroy yourself, I’ll come along, I can promise you that. There’s no reason to stay”
“You have your brother, your father, and a group of friends that love you. You’re everything I have and I failed you today,” Dominik says and I clean a tear fromhis cheek, and kiss the place the tear was at.
“You didn’t fail me. There was nothing you could have done. Liot has been thinking about this for years, it’s nothing but natural that he has some tricks up his sleeve. You saved Aiden today, and you kept me safe. Karl didn’t let anything happen to me,” I state and Dominik sighs in relief. I’m sure it’s because of what I said but I also finished bandaging his hands and they automatically glued themselves to my back and waist.
“I so fucking love you, ma Vie,” Dominik says and I laugh when he glues our bodies together, his boxers, stretched rock hard.
