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Why is there so much blood? And why is it all over my hands?
“Mom,” I whisper as I collapse to my knees.
I can’t remember how I got here. Can’t remember where the blood came from. All I can remember is the screaming. So much screaming.
“Raven! No!” my mom shouts a plea. “Run!”
“I’m sorry,” I whisper.
She screams—
My eyelids flutter open and gasp for air. I hate it when I have memories like that, ones I feel like I barely experienced. I usually only have one or two every few months, but today, I’ve had three total. But the last one might be because of what happened to me.
Drugged. I was drugged.
Then I fell from a bridge and Zay, Jax, and Hunter saved me.
What happened after that, though?
Where am I?
My stomach twists with nausea as I peer around at … well, I’m not really sure where I am. From what I can tell, I’m in a large bed with lots of pillows and blankets around me.
The bedroom the bed is in has dark blue walls with photos hanging on them, making me wonder if I’m in Hunter’s room. But how did I get here?
As I slowly sit up, I realize I’m wearing someone else’s shirt, and my body feels like it was run over by a truck. Or like it slammed into a freezing cold river …
As memories of what happened gradually surface, I throw the blankets off me. Then I frown. My legs aren’t covered up by anything.
“Crap,” I breathe out, recalling how Hunter held me while Jax tugged down my shorts.
At first I’d panicked, but then I realized they were just trying to help me not die from hypothermia. Still, I’m a little unsettled at the idea that they saw me without my clothes on.
They probably saw my scars.
Swallow shakily, I start to scoot toward the edge of the bed so I can figure out what happened and where I am. But the door to the bedroom opens up before I can even get my feet to the floor.
A slamming instant of a heartbeat later, Hunter walks in. He blinks in surprise when he notices me then relief washes over his features.
“Thank God, you’re really awake,” he says, the tension in his muscles unraveling.
“Really awake?” I say confusedly. “Was I fake awake before?”
He wavers, raking his fingers through his hair. “You’ve been coming in and out of consciousness for a while.”
“Oh.” I tuck a strand of my hair behind my ear. “Where am I exactly?”
He enters the room. “In our house. This is my bedroom.”
I chew on my bottom lip, fiddling with the hem of the shirt I’m wearing that covers up the scars on my side, so many question marks flooding my thoughts. “How did I... I mean, how did I get this shirt on?”
Hunter tracks the movement. “I put it on you. I promise I was careful, though, and didn’t look or let my hands wander...” He trails off with uncertainty. “But I did see something while we were taking your clothes off in the car. And I don’t want to make you feel uncomfortable, but what I—Jax and I saw has us concerned.”
My cheeks warm as I feel so exposed. “It’s not really a big deal.”Please, please don’t ask me how I got them.
Pity floods his eyes. “No, pretty Raven, it is a big deal. A big, huge fucking deal.” Sucking in a breath, he sits down beside me. “I’m going to show you something. It’s something no one else knows about other than Zay and Jax.”
He opens and flexes his free hand and takes an uneven breath.
