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“You can’t sleep,” she whispers, letting me know she’s awake.
“No.”
“What’s wrong?”
“I don’t know.”
“Yeah, you do.”
“I’m pissed off,” I tell her.
“Why?”
“If I didn’t love you, I’d be good right now.” The words come out so easily. Without effort, and that does something to me. My chest clenches. I don’t know if I should have told her that, but I need her to know what I feel.
“You what?”
“I love you, Yenni.” I feel the tears as they leak onto my chest, but I don’t say anything further. In fact, neither of us do.
We just lay like this for the rest of the night.
18
Yenni
I lay in his arms most of the night until I couldn’t stay still. I heard what he said. I heard his words, and they sunk deeper and deeper into my chest as I thought about them. He loves me. I never thought I’d love someone again, not after Scott. I do love Cage, though. I just couldn’t form the words to say it back, and I don’t think he was expecting me to.
He went to get breakfast and left me alone in the room. Tarek’s old lady has been by to check on me, and even Ginger has been by, which was unexpected. The one I worry about is Twitch. What’s going to happen when he shows up? What’s Cage going to do? What am I going to do?
I swallow the pills Cage left me for my headache as I sit up in the bed and shift until I’m against the headboard. The door opens, and my heart leaps a little until I see it’s Cage. He walks in with a bag of food and approaches me before setting it on the bed.
“I didn’t know what you wanted, so I got everything,” he says. I smile at his words.
“Thank you.” He grunts.
“Twitch isn’t answerin’ his phone,” he tells me. I didn’t figure he would. But I also heard what Marsha said. She didn’t tell them about Twitch. I assume he knows that I would, though.
“He took me because he wanted me. He had me chained to the bed. He used Marsha and Scott. He threatened Scott. Marsha went along with most of it because she wanted Twitch.”
“What the hell? Who is Scott?”
“My ex. He was abusive toward the end of our relationship. He was a drunk, and then he’d get angry,” I tell him.
“Fuck me. I didn’t know that.”
“Twitch forced him to rape me.”
“I’m gonna kill him, Yenni. He’s a dead man.”
“I know,” I whisper as he sits next to me.
“I’m not good at this comfortin’ shit. I don’t know how to be here for you,” he admits.
“You’re doing fine. I’ll be fine,” I tell him.
“Will you? He’s still out there, Yenni. He’s capable of anything,” he adds.
“I’ll kill him myself if he comes near me,” I reply truthfully.
