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“Fuck you!” Chad screamed and pulled his own fist back. Before he could let loose, Jack threw a haymaker, dropping Chad to his knees.
“Ava, go call the police,” Jack shouted as he drew back his fist to hammer Chad with another blow.
“Jack, wait,” I said, as I pulled out my phone to call the police. “Stop hitting him!” I screamed, afraid the police would get the wrong idea.
Jack hit Chad again, who was now whimpering on the ground. “You’re defending this piece of shit?” Jack asked, a ferocious scowl on his face.
Before I could respond to his ridiculous accusation, the operator answered my call and I explained what was happening, urging her to send a car over here. Jack just stood there, scowling at me with his arms crossed over his chest.
“I didn’t want them to arrest the wrong person,” I explained, eager for him to understand I was in no way defending Chad. His expression softened slightly with comprehension.
“Ava?” I heard my mother call from the open front door. “What is going on?”
God, I had forgotten about my parents. I spun around, trying to think of how to explain everything to her. “Um…”
“Is that Chad on the ground?” she asked in shock.
Before I could answer, Jack stepped forward and put his arm around me. “Hi, Mrs. Fisher, Ava’s ex was bothering her. I stepped in and now we’re waiting for the police,” Jack said calmly, giving her an incredibly sanitized version of events, as if he hadn’t just beat the absolute shit out of my ex.
My father appeared next to my mother and was wearing the same perplexed expression. “Where the hell did he come from?” he asked, gesturing to my groaning ex.
I sighed. “He-he had been texting me, but I didn’t think–”
“Ava, he’s been texting you and you didn’t tell us?” my mother asked looking wounded.
I felt tears welling up in my eyes as the combined stress of the evening caught up with me. “I’m sorry,” I rasped. “I didn’t, I didn’t think he–”
We heard a groan from the ground as Chad started to move. “I think you broke my nose, you asshole. I’m going to sue the shit out of you,” Chad whined while reaching up to tentatively touch his bleeding nose.
Only an entitled douchebag like Chad would issue a threat after sustaining a broken nose while trying to kidnap someone.
Jack rolled his eyes, but otherwise didn’t respond to him.
“I’m getting out of here,” Chad said as he pulled himself up to his feet.
“The fuck you are,” Jack said as he turned to hold him by the front of his shirt.
“What? Are you going to stop me?” Chad taunted, which might have been more effective if blood wasn’t pouring out of his squashed nose like a faucet.
Jack shook his head. “You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. Ava, you dated this fucking guy?”
I put my hands on my hips and gave Jack a dirty look.
“Ava, I think we need to talk,” my father said from the doorway and I jumped having forgotten they were there.
I gulped. This was going to suck. I should have told them about the texts. “Yeah…” I started but was interrupted by the wail of sirens.
Grateful for the reprieve, I rushed over to the police car to make sure they arrested Chad because, based on bloodshed, the wrong guy might end up in handcuffs.
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Chapter 30
Jack
I sat on Ava’s front steps as she spoke to the police officers, my mind switching back to the moment I got her phone call in the car. At first, I thought she’d pocket dialed me and nearly hung up, but then I heard her scream and chills broke out across my body. I nearly put my car in a fucking ditch as I pulled a U-turn to get back to her.
Every minute it took me felt like ten years as I listened to the crazy shit her ex was saying to her, thinking of how fucking scared she must be. I had promised to protect her from this psychotic asshole, and I was failing. I had to get to her.
