AllFreeNovel
Share Us
After eating, I head back to the car and start to get my shit together when my phone rings. I have the ringer volume turned all the way up, so I might hear it when I’m working, although I usually don’t.
I glance down at my phone and pause. My heart actually squeezes at the sight of the name on the screen. I didn’t expect to see it. I told Roadkill I was going to call her, but I’m not sure I actually would have.
I pick up the device, slide my thumb across the screen to answer it and hold the phone to my ear.
“Agony,” I greet.
Silence.
Then I hear an almost whimpered sound that puts my entire fucking body on high alert, but I can’t react at all. Because she fucking vanished and hasn’t returned any of my text messages or phone calls. She’s fucking disappeared—she fucking ran from me.
“I think I need help,” she whispers.
Her voice sounds so small. I wonder if it’s an act or real. I can’t quite tell. Although I wouldn’t think she would fake anything, I also didn’t think she would take off the way she did, especially with the way she left Kiplyn and the other old ladies.
“Tell me why the fuck you left,” I demand.
She is silent, and I think that maybe she’s ended the call, but then I hear her exhale a breath before she speaks again.
“It doesn’t matter. I can’t tell you. Will you just come and get me?”
Her meek voice begins to rise, and I can tell she’s irritated now, maybe even pissed off. Good. I’m pissed off, too.
Fuck this shit.
And fuck her for running from me, from her family the way she did, because we are just that—family, even if she doesn’t accept it. She’s been invited into the Devil’s Hellions, and she shit on us.
“I won’t. Not until you tell me what the fuck is going on.”
I hear her growl. My lips curve up into a smirk. I fucking love it when she gets all sassy and shit. It’s my favorite. It’s why I always riled her up, and it is sexy as fuck. But that’s not why I’m doing it now. This is all about finding out the truth. She doesn’t get to bounce without a good fucking reason.
“It doesn’t matter. I just need you to help me.”
Fuck.
I want to help her so goddamn bad. I want to be her knight and save her. But I can’t, not like this. She has to start telling us about her life, about her problems. And I’ll come rescue her immediately if she does.
“I won’t come until you give me something, babe. You gotta give me fucking something.”
“Fine,” she snaps.
I think for just a brief moment that she is going to finally tell me, but she doesn’t. Instead, she ends the call, and I feel like a fucking asshole, but I don’t call her back. I don’t text her. I don’t do shit. She’s got to stop trying to be so goddamn secretive when it comes to this shit. There’s no reason she can’t tell the man in her life about her goddamn past.
REESE
I pinch my eyes closed, causing the tears to roll down my cheeks. My heart races. I should have just told him the truth. I should have said a million things. I could have lied, and he wouldn’t have known it.
I could have said anything.
The police officer asks me for my number, then tells me he’ll be contacting me. I doubt he will. They’re always so busy, they don’t care that much about a little domestic dispute, but when his eyes search mine, I see pity behind his gaze, so maybe he will.
That pity hurts my heart and my pride, though.
I shouldn’t be pitied. I hate that, but at the same time, I would pity myself if I were looking from the outside in on this situation.
Douglasgroomed me, and then he abused me over and over until I ran. Except there is no running from him because he keeps finding and hurting me. Over and over.
Tonight, I was lucky. I fought back. I screamed loud enough that someone called the police. He would have taken me had I not made a loud enough scene.
