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“Call a fucking doctor!” Antonio shouted at Alessio. My body was cradled in his arms at the back seat, and Apollo was at my feet crying. I wanted to pet him to stop his cry. I wanted to kiss Antonio’s worries away. I wanted everything to be good. I didn’t want to burden them with my pain.
But I couldn’t even move. I could only cry.
The pain was too much.
My vision was better, but I still couldn’t understand everything happening around me. Being held by Antonio made it better, but it was still unbearable.
I was weak. Oh, so weak.
“Antonio, she is bleeding,” Alessio’s voice came.
I was bleeding. From my head, my nose, my neck, my arm, from everywhere, I was bleeding. I was bleeding so much. How much more do I need to bleed to die? Was I going to die?
“I am going to die.”
“No!” Antonio sharply answered. I wanted him to give me a reason. I wanted his logical brain to just spill, but it didn’t. He only kept saying no, like he was not able to form any other thought.
He also told me to keep my eyes open. It was hard. It gave me nausea, especially when Antonio started moving with me in his arms. I tried to not focus on my surroundings. I tried not to focus on the pain. I focused on him. I watched his handsome face.
The pain didn’t go away, but if I was really going to die, I wanted his face to be the last thing I saw. It gave me a strange sense of peace.
I kept crying. I kept moaning in pain. I still didn’t want to die. But if something happened to me, at least Antonio was here. I was not alone in a forest. I was in the arms of the man I loved.
And then I was not.
“Don’t leave me! Antonio!”
“I only put you to bed,” he assured me. His voice sounded almost as painful as mine.
I was really in a bed. I was in our bed. We were not alone. I could see so many faces behind him. Too many to recognize. So, I only focused on his.
I only wanted to look at him, but another’s voice captured me. “Who did this to you, Priscilla?”
Even though my tear-filled eyes, I could tell it was Salvatore. He was the first one who asked me, but with the question, I saw Antonio’s eyes burning up. His hand on my cheek tensed. It was like he couldn’t even think that someone did this to me because he was too worried about me.
It felt like he couldn’t think straight, but it was just an absurd idea.
I tried to hold back my cries to answer Salvatore. “A m-man,” I managed. “Apollo… s-saved me. He ran to t-the… forest.”
Salvatore nodded once and then turned to the door. “Valerio, come with me.”
He followed his brother while assuring us, “We will kill him.”
I looked at Antonio. His eyes were still burning with rage, but he looked like his body was not able to move. “I can’t leave you,” he rasped with a hard voice.
I wanted to tell him I didn’t want him to. I wanted to tell him I wanted him close at all times. But it required so much effort, and before I could even try, Bella’s voice cut me off. “You need to get back, Antonio.”
“I can’t leave her!” he roared at Bella.
Bella didn’t even flinch. I didn’t want her to take him away from me, but I couldn’t stop. I was in so much pain. I was still aware of every bruise and every cut.
“She needs bandages until the doctor comes. You are lost. Please let me take care of her.”
Antonio swallowed and pulled back from me. “Promise to be gentle?”
Mia came beside me, cleaning blood from the cut on my arm before Bella answered, “Promise.”
Then she came closer too. Their touch hurt, but I didn’t mind. They were keeping me alive. I tried to stay still. I tried to let them take care of me. My eyes were on Antonio, who was looking at me, pacing the room in worry.
