AllFreeNovel
Share Us
CHAPTER 1
BLAKE
“Blake? Can you hear me? I need you to open your eyes for me,” Grey’s voice roused me from the darkness I had slipped into. I fought to open my eyes, wanting to see him, wanting to see all of my guys. I tried to remember what had happened. Why was my head pounding so hard? My eyes felt like lead weights were holding them closed, but I was determined to open them.
“She’s opening her eyes,” Tom said. I hated how panicked he sounded. My eyes fluttered open and I found Grey above me, looking over me with concern. I felt his hands either side of my head, holding it still.
“Hey you,” Grey greeted as his eyes locked with mine. He seemed calmer than Tom had sounded. I tried to look around for the others, attempting to think straight through the fuzz that was clouding every thought. Was I laying in the road? “I need you to hold still for me, Blake. EMT’s are coming, but until they get here I want to keep your head really still, okay?” I opened my mouth to try and speak, but no words would come out and I instantly panicked. Why couldn’t I speak? What was going on? My eyes moved all around me, trying to remember why I was laid there, but my thoughts were fuzzy.
“We’re here, jellybean,” Liam said, and then I saw him at my side, felt him take my hand in his. The other guys all followed, appearing at my side, Tom beside his brother and Declan opposite them.
“Where’s the fucking ambulance?” I heard Trent demand from somewhere above me.
“Maybe we should take her in the car?” Dad said. They all sounded worried, which only increased my terror.
“We can’t move her, and even if we could, we’ve all been drinking,” Grey told them calmly. “The ambulance is coming.”
My eyes became too heavy to hold open and my panic ebbed as my thoughts got even hazier.
“Blake, open your eyes, right now!” Declan growled. I couldn’t deny his demand and my eyes fluttered open again, searching him out. “Good girl. That’s my good girl,” he said, sounding like he was going to cry.
“Just stay with us, babe. You’re going to be alright,” Tom promised, but I was losing the battle. Darkness filled my vision and my eyes weighted closed before I could find a way to tell them all that I was sorry. My last conscious thought was relief that they had all been with me if that was the end.
DECLAN
“What the fuck is taking so long?” I snarled as I paced back and forth in the waiting room we had all been stuck into. It had been two hours since they rushed Blake into a room and moved us all away from the woman I loved. I was losing my mind while we all waited there, completely fucking useless!
That fucking car had hit her head on, sending her into the curb hard. Her head had been split open when the EMT’s lifted her onto the bed and into the ambulance. I had seen the look on Grey’s face when he saw that, the worry he felt. It was bad, we all knew it.
“They’ll need to do scans. This injury, on top of her existing brain injury…it can’t be good,” Grey told me. He was sat beside Nan, trying to soothe her, but none of us could be soothed. We were all out of our minds with worry that we were going to lose her.
“What does that mean? Am I going to lose my daughter?” Simon demanded as he jumped to his feet from where he had only just sat down beside Trent.
When I had started screaming for help earlier, as that car sped off without a backward glance, it had sobered him, and all of us up, immediately. Grey had been there instantly, jumping into action to stabilize Blake as much as he could, trying to prevent a spinal injury, while we just all looked on in horror; Simon, Trent and the others demanding to know what the hell had happened.
But I couldn’t answer. I was in shock, having no clue where the fuck that car had even come from or how it had gotten to Blake before I could. I had failed her. I should have gotten to her before it was too late, but I couldn’t, and I would never forgive myself for that.
“I don’t know,” Grey replied defeatedly. “I just don’t fucking know.” Nan sobbed again as she pulled Grey in and held him against her.
“She’s going to be fine. She’s lived through hell. A fucking car is not going to take her from us,” Trent ground out angrily.
“I can’t lose her…I can’t…not now… not ever,” Tom spoke aloud the words that were running through my mind over and over. I didn’t care if it was too soon to say it – I was in love with Blake, and losing her now was going to kill me. It would kill all of us.
“We are not going to lose her,” Liam told his brother as he grabbed his hand and clutched it tightly. “She’s going to be fine.”
“Who was driving that car? It’s not even a through route. Who would be speeding down there?” Simon asked angrily. It was exactly what I had been asking myself since the moment of impact and I had come up with one answer.
“Abby!” I spat angrily. It was the only thing that made sense.
“What?” Trent raged as he tried to jump up, but fell back and cursed his injured leg. “What are you talking about? Did you see her?”
“No. It was too dark to see much, and I was focused on getting to Blake, but it had to be her,” I told him.
“Why? How would she even know Blake was there?” Trent asked.
“She turned up at the house. That’s who knocked on the door,” Liam explained.
“She wanted to see you, but we told her to fuck off. When Blake tried to reiterate that she wasn’t welcome, Abby got pissed and threatened her,” Tom added.
