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I hear hurried footsteps and then Ella voice, “Don’t worry I’m gone, I left my house keys here.” She says as she’s already on her way back out.
“Ella! Wait. Help!” I yell out for her. “Come on Ian.” I turn him further onto his side when, like a bad joke, my brother stops breathing. “What the fuck! Oh shit! Ella! Help!” I scream for her again.
“What? What’s wrong?” She runs in my direction skidding to a stop right at the doorway of the bathroom. “Oh shit! What the fuck. Move! Move!” She pushes me out of the way and drops down on the ground near my brother not even bothered with the throw up she just kneeled in.
“I’m going to call 911,” I tell her as she puts her ear to his chest.
“Yeah, he’s not breathing. Fuck.” She turns him over after sweeping a finger in his mouth. I put the phone to my ear as I watch Ella put her mouth to my brother’s and give him two deep breaths.
“9-1-1, What is the nature of your emergency?”
I quickly rattle off my brother’s condition and what my location is before I leave the phone on the floor and kneel down with Ella. As she does the breathing I take over the chest compressions. We work together as a tag team and by the time the ambulance shows up we’ve got Ian breathing again.
I follow them downstairs Ella at my side.
“We can’t take you with us. You can follow behind us to the hospital.” The paramedic tells me.
“Yeah, we’ll be right behind you.” I grab hold of Ella’s hand and the two of us rush into the private garage to one of my cars. Thankfully the key is in the car, because I don’t want to have to go back upstairs.
I quickly put the car in drive and do my best to catch up with the ambulance already on its way to the hospital. I can barely see the strobe lights about two blocks ahead of me.
“Percy!” Ella screams out just as some jackass cuts us off and I have to swerve over. I didn’t see him. My heart is already beating out of my chest with anxiety for Ian, so this little slight is enough to set me off.
“You fucking piece of shit! Asshole! What the fuck!” I roar out.
“Percy, please. Stay with me here, okay?” Ella grabs my arm and squeezes it. I glance over at her to see the fear and worry on her face. The car that cut me off is already long gone, so I know she’s not concerned about crashing. She’s worried about me.
I blow out a deep breath and grab her hand. “I’m sorry. I’m okay now. Sorry.” I pull her hand up to my mouth and kiss her knuckles. She relaxes slightly.
“It’s okay. We’re right there. I can still see the ambulance.” She focuses out the window.
It only takes about three minutes for me to get to the hospital, but when I do they’ve already started working on Ian.
I try to push through the door, but a nurse stops me. “Sir, you can’t come in here right now. You need to wait out in the family waiting area.” She points me in the opposite direction, but it’s not registering.
“I need to go with my brother,” I growl out at her, but a small hand grabs hold of my bicep and tugs me back—Ella. The constant rock in my tumultuous life right now.
“Percy, we have to let them do their job. They’ll come to get us when we can go see him, okay?” She pulls me back and this time I let her.
I walk into the empty waiting room and fall into one of the chairs. I don’t know how the hell this happened, but I know that if Ella hadn’t shown up I’d be so much worse off. I’d acted like such an ass to her and she came back to save the day.
I sit up and Ella immediately jerks up to attention.
“Ella, I fucked up. I was so pissed at Ian and I took it out on you. I shouldn’t have. I’m just not used to being this out of control. I’ve been trying to …”
She leans up and kisses me hard on the lips. It catches me off guard, but my body instantly reacts to hers. All the craziness going on in my head vanishes and all I can focus on is how good her body feels under my fingertips. When she pulls back my mouth follows her for another taste.
“You’re forgiven Percy. This is a lot. I can see that, but you need to know that If I’m going to be here with you, I’m here all the way.” She holds my face in her hands and I nod my head. I wonder if she knows that I’m close to saying fuck it and making her mine. There’s no way I’m going to find another woman like Ella.
17
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The sun beatsdown on my face and I have to squint my eyes in order to get them open. Percy and I spent most of last night in the hospital with his brother. The doctor said that Ian would make it, but his heart is very weak from all the drug use.
Percy may be a proud macho man, but even I saw the way his body slumped when he heard the news. The relationship between the two may be strained, but he loves his brother. I just don’t understand why he’s trying so hard to keep Ian a secret.
“Tell me it’s not morning and that light is the house on fire.” Percy groans out from next to me.
