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“Put your seatbelt on, Allie.”
Something knocks us forward from behind, and the car fishtails until slamming into a tree. I cling to Jadon, cupping his head on the window side until I’m forced back against the other side of the car, hitting the back of my head a little too hard that my vision goes dark.
Jadon’s screams barely register over the ringing in my ears. Screaming is good. It’s not silence.
Forcing my eyes open just enough to see him through spots and clouds. There is no blood. The airbags went off in the front seat, and I can’t see anything else.
“Jadon...”
“Daddy!”
The sound of the door ripping open is enough to open my eyes again to see two strong arms reach in and rip Ted from his seat. I count down from ten and focus on opening my eyes. The ringing in my ears never stops. Jadon looks fine, which is all I care about.
Slightly dizzy, I help him unbuckle and pull him onto my lap. I just need to sit for a minute before I can crawl out of here. “Are you okay?”
“I’m fine,” he says. His breathing is hard and fast, but I don’t feel any blood and he’s not crying. I don’t think anything is broken.
It’s the worst possible time for flashbacks to that awful day, but they’re forcing themselves to the forefront of my mind. Again, all I see are the tubes and monitors when I was rushed to the hospital.
“Mommy, are you okay?” Jadon wraps his arms around my waist and nestles his head into my chest. “He’s here. He came for us.”
The ringing in my ears settles, and I can hear the hard hits and groans outside the car. Lucas is straddling Ted on the ground with a bloodied face while he lays one fist after another into Ted.
“I told you not to go near them.” Lucas takes a swing down on Ted’s jaw.
He looks positively feral right now.
“Where’s my fucking ring, Ted? Huh?”
Another punch.
What? What ring? Did I forget something?
Lucas has a split lip and is bleeding, too. Ted must have got a hit in. Lucas spits blood down on the ground and grins at Ted. “You want to know what’s funny, Ted? Your petty theft did absolutely nothing except prove that she still didn’t want you and is with me because it’s always been me.”
He leans down and lowers his voice. I cover Jadon’s ears, afraid of whatever he’s going to say. Lucas looks like a dark angel over Ted with a bloody, sinister smile on his face. Whatever he’s going to say, Jadon doesn’t need to hear any of it. “I still got to eat her out and fuck her off our bed while she screamed my name. How’s that one?”
Oh, my god.
Lucas leans back up and chuckles down at Ted. “Fucking pitiful, Theodore. You don’t get to have the girl, Ted, just because Mark says you can. He’s fucking nobody to her and shouldn’t make promises he can’t keep. She’s a person not cattle, you asshole.”
Ted chokes under him and we hear sirens in the background next.
Lucas stares down at Ted with a murderous rage in his face. “And don’t you ever call my son a bastard again.”
Lucas delivers one more punch and I try the doors. They’re all locked so they can’t open from the inside. We have to crawl through the front.
“Jadon, hang on. Let me open your door.” He sits back and watches Lucas beat on Ted. My head feels like it is splitting in half while my legs shake. “Shit,” I mutter to myself.
Ted takes a swing, hitting Lucas, but it’s nothing compared to the damage Lucas has done. I hope Lucas’s shoulder is okay. I know it bothers him sometimes.
Jadon is fine, and Lucas is fine. Therefore, I’m fine.
When I stumble out of the car, I go for the back door to let Jadon out. We hear a rumbling engine from behind. Maybe it’s the police. Hopefully. I think I hear sirens in the distance, or maybe it’s my brain all rattled from the crash.
Jadon messes with his shoe on the ground or something while I catch my breath. Once I can breathe, I pick Jadon up and lean against the back of the car. The front is completely smashed in to a large pine tree. I don’t know how I didn’t go through the windshield or come out with more injuries.
Lucas lays one last hit into Ted and pushes up from the ground, and with my eyes closed, I take a minute to appreciate the fact that we’re all still standing.
