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For a second, it’s like it doesn’t register. And then hot, searing anger rips me apart.
“Your father did this?” My voice sounds amazingly calm. But inside I’m a steaming, desperate man who wants to find his enemy and rip him apart with his bare hands. The urge to pull the feckless asshole’s heart out and beat it until it’s a blood pulp on the floor hits me.
Primal. My beast is fighting to break through civilization’s bonds and find and render the treat to my woman useless. In the most basic way possible.
I want to kill him.
Want to see him lying at my feet in a bloody pile of skin and bones that I’ve ripped apart and thrown to the dirt where it belongs.
But right now, I’ve got my woman to worry about. I’ll find and destroy my enemy later.
We pull into the parking lot and a man runs out to take my girl from me. I carry her in myself, loathe to let her go.
But once the doctor sees her and checks her thready pulse and finds the blood on her legs, he hollers for a nurse and then they take her away from me.
Hours later, I open my swollen eyes to see the doctor standing in front of me, twisting his hands.
“I’m sorry…” he starts saying the words and there’s a buzzing in my ears and tears fall from my eyes. I roar to my feet and pick up the chair, throwing it at the wall, angrier and more pained than I think I’ve ever felt in my life.
My angel is gone. Someone snuffed her out before we even got a chance to have our happily ever after. Some evil troll took my life away from me when they took her. I will never be able to survive.
I tear at my chest, ripping my shirt open, hoping that I can reach in and pull my heart right out of my chest. That’s all I can do now. I can’t go on without my lovely angel. My reason for being.
My whole damn world.
“No, no, no!”I’m screaming as hands pull at me, trying to restrain me, to control me.
But there’s no controlling my tortured mind.
So many hands grab me and the doctor slips a vial into me. Within seconds I feel a wave of relief come over me.
“Mr. Marshall,” he says, panting. “She’s not gone. She’s alive. She’s got a mild concussion. But the bleeding.” Here he stops and takes a deep breath, gulping.
“She lost your baby. I’m so sorry. But she’s still young and healthy. I’m sure you will be able to have other children. Now. We’ll take you to her and you can stay with her but we’ll monitor both of you overnight. Maybe longer. We’ll have to see how things go. Are you alright now?”
I nod my head, still befuddled by the drugs but realizing that my angel is still alive soothes my primal beast. Until I realize that she lost our child.
And then anger roars in my head again. “She lost our child.”
“Yes, I’m sorry. We did everything we could think of but it was too much for her.”
“It’s alright.” It’s not. “As long as she’s alright?”
He nods his head. “She will be. She’ll recover fully, I’m sure.”
“Then we’ll survive.” But her father will not. He took her childhood, he took our child and he tried to take her life.
He’s a dead man walking.
CHAPTER11
Bonnie
Istare sightlessly in front of me, my hands curled on the blanket covering my lap. I haven’t been able to get warm since I came home from the hospital.
My baby. I lost my child. I close my eyes, tears trickling down my cheeks again.
I can’t stop crying. The pain is an endless, dark void. I lost our child. Because of my father.
