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"I-I'm sorry, Evelyn. Thank you for fighting and sur-surviving on your own. Thank you for living."
It's hard work to lift my weighted hands into the longer strands on top of his head when he drops down onto the sheets beside me. I fight the sleepiness like my life fucking depends on it. There's a battle between the woman my men need and the woman who needs to heal. They may need to work together, but my family needs me more than I need sleep right now.
"There's n-nothing to," I swallow, "forgive." My words may be soft and raspy, but they still hit their mark.
Korren's head shoots up, his eyes wide. "You don't understand, I-"
Before he can continue to apologize my ear off, I yank on the hairs I can manage to get a grip of and shush him. "No apol-apologizing." staying coherent is getting harder, along with the stabbing distress in my throat.
I attempt to drag him up and am grateful he understands my request. With his face hovering above me and his hitched breathing skittering across my lips, my arms begin to weaken the longer I hold him to me.
Just as my arms begin to give out under the force of gravity, I whisper the words he needs to hear, "You saved me."
The gentle caress of our lips tingles my nerve endings as I succumb to the heavy blanket of sleep.
"They aren't coming for you. I'm sure they were glad when they found out you were gone." A full-body shudder rolls through me at Kyle's treacherous words.
"You're lying! They will find me...they will!"
"Then why haven't they found you already, huh?"
Trapped in a dark space with nothing to see around me, the sound of his wretched taunts echo throughout the room. He's all around me, trapping me from every angle, suffocating the hope out of me.
"They will! They promised!" My guys promised they will always protect me... they promised me the world. I know they weren't lying...Nolan, Ryan...Amiri and Korren, love me.
"None of them love you."
A gasp catches in my throat when the hair around my face moves with his rancid breath in my ear. Twisting around, I throw a fist, hoping to break his fucking face. Except he's not there. Gone again and one with the shadows.
"Why would anyone love a used-up slut like you, Pet?"
It's the nickname that makes me see red. "Shut up!"
"Baby, wake up!"
"They love me! My guys are coming for me!"
"Eve!"
The tremble of my arms and the pounding in my head yank me from the nightmarish memory. Gasping for breath, I cringe at the light burning my closed eye sockets and the hammer bashing against my brain.
"Lights!"
The firm demand does nothing to curb the pain, but they are mildly forgiven when the lights shut off.
"Let's just keep them off all the time, yeah?"
"I'm not the one turning them on; one of you guys is."
"I haven't."
"Me neither."
"Oh. Maybe the nurses are when they do their checkups."
I grumble, already annoyed with the amount of noise these dipshits are surrounding me with today. Mortification makes me never want to open my eyes when flashes of the last time I was awake come to mind.
I called the damn nurse pretty.
