“Stop! Leave her alone, you fucker!” I screamed out as Bob started laughing.
“Susan! Don’t let him do this!”
“Shut up, bitch!”
The handcuffs started banging against the pole as I frantically began moving. Bob walked back over and my whole body went limp as he stepped on the lipstick tube.
“NO!” I screamed out as my eyes looked at the broken tracker lying on the floor. Looking back up at him, I knew I would fight with everything I had. He was not going to hurt my baby.
“I’ve had just about enough of you. It’s time to give you the punishment you deserve.”
With every ounce of anger inside of me, I began kicking and screaming. There was no way in hell this guy was going to even think of touching me.
“Shut up!” he shouted.
His hands tried to keep my legs from moving, but I used everything I had in me to keep fighting. The look in his eyes was turning from angry to evil, and I knew I only had about thirty seconds to fight him off before he did something again to make me stop.
Bob lifted his hand in a fist as I closed my eyes and got ready for him to hit me. As long as he hit me in the face and not in the stomach, I had to protect my baby. The loud pop caused Susan to scream as I heard a crashing noise.
My eyes snapped open as I watched the pained expression on his face. Before I knew what was happening, Bob was on the floor with blood beginning to pool around his head and Grayson was cupping my face.
“Meagan . . . baby, look at me. Don’t look at him. Look. At. Me.”
I screamed out again as I looked down at Bob’s lifeless body on the floor. I desperately tried to get as far away from him as I could when I felt someone’s hands on me.
“He’s gone, he’s not going to hurt you. Meg, baby look at me.”
My head jerked up and I was soon pinned with the bluest of blue eyes.
“Gray,” I whispered as his lips pressed against mine.
Sobs rolled over my body as I fought to speak.
“You’re here. You made it in time. You saved us!”
His lips were all over my face as I felt someone else releasing my hands from the handcuffs. The moment my arms fell free, I wrapped them around Grayson’s neck and cried like I had never cried before.
“You’re here,” I whimpered out as I buried my face into his chest.
“Shh . . . it’s okay, baby. You’re safe now and I’m never letting you out of my sight again.”
All the pain vanished as I let Grayson pick me up and carry me out of the cabin. I kept my eyes shut for fear of what I would see walking out.
“Please tell me this was all a nightmare.”
Grayson held me close to him as he set me down inside of his truck. “We need to get you to the hospital, baby, to be checked out. Did he . . . did he . . . hurt you in any way?”
I shook my head. “It’s just my head and my ribs hurt from where he hit and kicked me.”
Sucking in a breath of air, I felt my hot tears run down my face.
“The baby,” I whispered as everything began to spin and all the light slowly drifted away.
“Gray, our baby . . .”
My entire body ached as I slowly opened my eyes. Looking around, I smiled.
Home.