“Thanks, sir.” I shake his hand and switch again towards the room. I really feel like my legs are going to break down below me.

Chapter Fourteen

CORAL

“Paging Dr. Wilson. Dr. Wilson, please report back to the ER stat.”

I hear the overhead web page as I come to. Heat surrounds me, and it is such a stark distinction to the final time I awoke. I startle and arms gently maintain me down.

“Simple, Mouse, I received you,” Rowdy says quietly from behind me. I am in a mattress within the hospital and he is mendacity with me. His physique wrapped round mine.

“I—” My throat constricts and my chest aches. “I really like you,” I whisper.

“I really like you too, Coral.” He chuckles as he holds me tighter. “I’ve received you, child.”

“Drink?” I ask, and he shifts, taking the heat with him. He comes again with a cup and bends the straw towards my mouth. I take a sip and sigh because the coolness washes the grime from my throat. “Did they get him?”

“Davis?”

“Yeah.”

“Logan has him in custody. The DA is asking for no bail since he tried to flee the nation and on your security.”

“Archer is protected?”

“Sure, child, he is protected. Mother has him proper now. She simply left a bit in the past as a result of they have been right here all day.”

“What day is it?” I do not understand how lengthy I used to be buried or out.

“It is nonetheless Wednesday. We discovered you simply in time. You’ve been unconscious for about eleven hours.”

“Thank God. I believed you’d by no means discover me. I believed I would by no means get to inform you I really like you. I’ve beloved you for a very long time. I used to be simply so scared. I wish to be with you. I need extra infants with you. I need all of it, Rowdy.” I clutch his shirt so he cannot draw back from me.

“Coral, they can not ever take me from you. Nobody ever will till demise takes me. Then I am going to hang-out your life to be with you. You are all the things. You’re the breath in my physique and the sunshine in my soul. Solely you, child.”

“I really like you,” I say once more as I settle in opposition to him, my eyes closing. I go to sleep holding him shut.

* * *

It’s day two within the hospital and I am able to be out of right here. I wish to go dwelling and lie in a mattress the place they are not waking me each couple of minutes to take my vitals. I need to have the ability to go to sleep with my man and my son. I am unable to stand that I am mendacity right here doing nothing. I am unable to stand feeling like anybody can stroll in with out warning. I am afraid of all the things and just about everybody besides Rowdy and our household. When Logan got here in to query me, I startled and about jumped out of the mattress. Then Ryker came visiting together with Rowdy’s aunt and uncle. I used to be so scared I trembled the entire time. The hospital introduced in a psychiatrist to assist me with the post-traumatic stress I am going by way of.

Fastidiously, I slip from the mattress and head for the toilet. I despatched Rowdy out when the psychiatrist got here in to speak to me. I informed him to go dwelling and take a bathe, then come again. He hates to depart my aspect and I hate for him to be far-off, however I knew if he heard my fears, he’d by no means depart me alone once more. Once I step out of the toilet, a person in a go well with I’ve by no means seen earlier than is standing in my room.

“Whats up?”

He turns and I see the coldness in his eyes. I instantly acknowledge him for who he’s. These are eyes I would always remember.

“Mr. Steingold, how can I allow you to?”

I slowly make my solution to the mattress the place the decision button is. I do not belief this man after what his son did to me. Logan came upon that the Steingold household used to return right here earlier than Davis’s father received deep into politics in California. That they had the winery and tried to compete with the Murphys however had been by no means capable of.

“Ms. Pierce, I’ve come by to apologize and see if there may be any means we will make this all go away. My son was out of his thoughts. I’ll get him assist.”

“Mr. Steingold, your son buried me alive. He threatened to kill my son and my fiancé and my household. He raped me, and I am uninterested in hiding these details. Your son is not just a little out of his thoughts. Your son is a sociopath.” I stand tall in my fuzzy jammies that Rowdy introduced me so I would not should put on a hospital robe. I watch as Davis’s father reaches into his breast pocket, and I flinch again anxious he has a gun.

“I am not going to harm you.” He pulls out his pockets. “I’ll write you a examine for any quantity.”

“You might want to depart proper now,” I say firmly.

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