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I hear his voice and turn to see him with the hostess from the pizza parlor. I stumble to him and keep myself on my feet until the police and ambulance show up.
I say another silent prayer that it’s not Trevor. I don’t know how he’d react to this.
* * *
An hour later I’m in the ER with my mom sitting in a chair next to the bed. Bas is in the bed with me. His little body is trembling as he sleeps wrapped around me.
“Emersyn.” Trevor’s voice does things to me, and I instantly start crying.
Bas wakes and sees Trevor standing in the curtained opening. My son jumps up into his arms when he approaches the bed. It makes my tears come harder watching Bas take comfort from him.
“Trevor,” I sob.
* * *
Trevor
I was sitting in the paramedic lounge when I overheard the nurses talking about a doctor from the hospital being attacked and mugged. As soon as they said her young son had been with her, I just knew. I was up and moving.
“Trevor, stop.” Ryan reaches for me, but I push past him. He and I are about the same height, but I have more muscle on him. “She doesn’t want to be disturbed,” he says as I rip the curtains back.
What I see causes every muscle in my body to tremble in anger. I want to kill the fucker who hurt her. She’s in a gown and the collar slips as she sits up, revealing the bruising on her upper chest. She grabs her right side, and I zone in on that when Bas jumps at me.
“I tried to save her. I pushed the panic alarm on the keys and ran, but I wanted to fight,” he sobs into my chest. I wrap my arms around him, holding his body. This is the most emotion he’s ever shown me. When he hangs out with the boys at practice, he’ll shake my hand and say very few words to me, even after what happened with Hays. But right here in this moment he needs me, so I give him my strength as I look over his head at Emersyn. She leans back in the bed with tears running down her face.
“Emmy, honey,” her mom starts but stops when I move to Emersyn’s side.
Bas lets me go and carefully crawls over his mom to her other side. I lean down and kiss her forehead. She sighs, and I itch to kiss her deeply and show her how much I’ve missed her. It’s been almost two weeks since I last had her and a week since she broke it off with me.
“How bad? What happened?” I hear how gravelly my voice is, but I can’t hide it. I’m scared to touch her. She has a bruise on her cheek and mud in her hair. Again, I want to kill whoever is responsible for hurting her.
“He jumped us when we left the pizza parlor. I don’t know who he was, and I didn’t see his face,” she says with a tremble in her voice. I brush my hand gently down her cheek over the bruise.
“I saw him, but I don’t know him. He stabbed her.” He points to her right side near where he’s lying.
“Bas, honey, how about you and I go get some candy from the vending machine,” Cynthia says, but he shakes his head.
Emersyn looks down at him and then to me. “Bas, go help Grammy get me a snack.”
“Okay, Mom.” He slides from the bed. “Don’t leave until I come back. She needs to be protected,” he says to me before exiting the curtain.
As soon as they are gone, I lean my forehead to hers. “Emmy, baby, what the fuck? You could have been killed. Please give me another chance. I can’t do this anymore. I miss you,” I beg her.
“I can’t,” she says, and sobs. “I can’t put your family in danger if Caleb is behind this. He’s never resorted to hurting me, but I didn’t think he’d ever hurt Bas either. The man said he would get me when he ran off. I can’t, Trevor.” She continues to cry.
I wrap her in my arms as I sit on the bed facing her, our hips next to each other. I hold her to me until she quiets down.
“Emmy?” Ryan says from the entrance, and we both turn to him. “Are you sure this isn’t Caleb?” He knows more about her ex than I do. I want to be jealous, but I can’t be.
“I’m…” She pauses. “He called the other day. Here at the office. Told me he would get what he was due.”
I grit my teeth and look down at her. “Baby.”
“It could be him.”
“The police would like to question you again,” he says, and waves for me to come with him.
“I promised Bas I wouldn’t leave her side,” I tell him, and he nods. I stand there while she gives the police another statement. She looks at me as she starts talking.
