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“Away. Away from me,” she gritted through her chattering teeth.
I violently shook my head, my fists clenched at my sides. “I can’t do that. Aubrey, let me take you to the hospital. They can check you, and we can catch this guy. Something can be—”
“No,” she sternly argued. “Can't you see, Dylan? It's too late, the damage is done. I'm already dead.”
“Oh my God, don’t say shit like that.” I placed my hand over my heart, trying to hold it together. I got off the bed and paced back and forth, wanting nothing more than for her to let me hold her, show her she had life in her still.
Most of all, I wanted to take away everything that fucker did to my girl.
“Baby, you’re right here,” I cried, pushing my hands through my hair. “You’re right fucking in front of me. You’re not dead. You’re right fucking here with me,” I argued, pounding my fist on my heart.
“Just go! I don’t want you here. Please just get out!” Her body shook from anger.
“If you’re not going to let me take you in to get help, then please just let me look at you. Let me make sure—”
She crawled to the end of the bed, her body almost giving out on her. I reached once again to help her and she slapped my hands away. She slowly stood, pulling her arms out through the sleeves to hold her ribs and lean against the bed frame.
I stepped toward her. “Let me help—”
“Jesus Christ!” she yelled out, stopping me dead in my tracks.
We locked eyes.
“Look at me, Dylan! Fucking look at me! What more can they do for me? Nothing! What more can you do for me? Fucking nothing! The damage is already done. You can’t help me! You can’t save me! You’re too fucking late!”
I immediately jerked back like she knocked me the fuck out. Fresh tears erupted from her eyes, and it took everything in me not to rush to her side and beg her to forgive me.
“Now leave!” she screamed at the top of her lungs, wincing once again from the pain in her ribs, I was sure were broken.
I stood there, glued to the goddamn floor that was caving beneath me. There was no coming back from this. It took one phone call to rip my happiness away, to take my girl away.
The irony was not lost on me.
“LEAVE!”
She fell to the floor in defeat and rocked back and forth. She shattered and this time I couldn’t pick up the pieces.
I shook my head, bowing it in defeat and walked out of the room. I heard the door slam shut a few minutes later as I paced around the living room, tugging my hair at the back of my neck, wanting nothing more than to rip it the fuck out.
I was at a loss.
I didn’t know what I could do. I didn’t know what I could say. I didn’t know one damn thing on how to handle this.
To handle her.
When I heard the shower start running, pure panic set into my bones.
She was cleaning off all the evidence.
“What the fuck, Aubrey?” I lamented out loud to myself, looking up at the ceiling. Silently praying to God that this was a nightmare I would soon wake up from. A God-awful dream.
Something…
Anything…
Than what was actually happening.
It didn’t take long to hear her sobs, each one of them tore into my heart, my soul, my mind, as if I was the one crying. The longer I stood there, the louder they got.
