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“Baby, are you okay?” Caleb asks as he checks me over again. I grab onto his shoulders and pull him into me.
“I’m fine. I’m okay. Are you okay?”
He nods.
I kiss him with everything I have. It’s as if the whole world around us disappears. I no longer hear the fire truck sirens, I don’t hear the police, the bystanders, or the whistle of the wind.
“I’m going to talk to the Sheriff, get this sorted so I can take you home.”
“Caleb your head.”
He shakes his head before whispering, “I’m fine. I was just caught off guard.”
He walks over to the Sheriff and deputies while I finish getting checked out by the paramedics.
“Julia.”
Madison calls out as she runs towards me. She hugs me tight. She turns around and notices them wheeling out a black body bag.
“Is that….?” She doesn’t even finish her sentence when I place my hand on her shoulder.
“Yes.”
She leans her head on my shoulder and just watches as the firefighters continue to water down my house. I can feel Caleb’s eyes on me.
There is no way he will still want me after this.
CALEB
DRINK ME BY MICHELE MORRONE
Forty Minutes ago….
Babe, I am home. Come over, I missed you.
The text I have been waiting for all day lights up on my screen. I just finished showering, so I put on my clothes and head out the door. Its a cold winter night, the snow crunches under my boots as I walk up the sidewalk. Julia’s house lights up as I approach. Her living room lights are on and the chimney steams. I twist the knob and walk inside. The sound of the shower fills the quietness as I slip out of my boots and hang my coat.
“I’m in the shower babe.”
She calls out and a smile is plastered on my face. Her voice lights me up and my heart hammers in my chest. I head to the wine cellar to grab a bottle of wine. Her grandmother always had a wide variety of wines. From reds, whites, pinks, you name it. I grab what I know to be Julia’s favorite, Stella Rosa Watermelon. She likes the sweet stuff, whereas I am more of a whiskey guy, but I don’t mind dabbling in something sweet once in a while.
The stairs of the wine cellar are metal and steep, it’s a wonder how an eighty year old, managed to climb these. When I approach the cellar door, I am met with a set of eyes that should not be in this home. Before I can even register what is going on a fist connects to my temple, my vision goes black, and I am falling hard against the metal steps.
When I finally come to, my eyes blink rapidly. I wince at the pain as I try to lift my head up off the stairs. Blood is pooled where my forehead was resting.
“He has everything you don’t. Me.”
Julia’s voice registers in my ears. I can hear panic in her voice, an unsettling feeling courses through my body as I turn my head to the direction her voice came from. She is struggling to get him off her, he has her pinned against the table. She must have just stepped out of the shower, as she is in her robe. I attempt to rise up but pain shoots to my temple. I shake my head to get rid of the pain before I try again.
This time when I look at Julia, she is fighting him and tries to go around the table but he body slams her to the ground. A burst of adrenaline spikes and I am on my feet hurrying around the kitchen. I look around for anything I can hit him with, something to get him away from her. I will fucking kill him if I have to.
Self defense.
He broke into her house and attacked me and now her. I grab the cast-iron skillet that sat on the burner.
“Now I will ruin you, so no man will ever want you.”
Gripping the handle I approach his back, her eyes meet mine for a split second before my hand rises and falls against his head. Her eyes snap shut as blood splatters against her clean skin.
