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"Shh, Dee… Look atto cal

"Did you find him?"

He shakes his head, and when I hear a snarl from the side of the room, my eye shifts to Maddox, who looks as if he’s about to snap in half Beck yells at hi ain "It’s okay; I need you to believewithme not to close him out

I take a few shallow breaths and focus on his eyes "Okay I trust you, Beck"

His shoulders sag with my whispered words, and his eyes drop for a second before he looks back atin his eyes

"Thank you, God, thank you…" He leans up, kissesback down, and starts to rub ht, and the slight flare of his nostrils, that he’s trying to compose hiives me the painI try to stay awake, afraid that if I fall asleep, Inizes s his face back to ain

Between his deep voice speaking softly against th I pull from just his touch, my eye starts to close, and h my mind as I listen to his voice is how lucky I am that he’s even here It doesn’t even matter that I can’t even understand the words, he’s here For everything that I’ve put hi the past rule iven up If this isn’t proof of just how far he really will go to fight for me, then I don’t knohat is

I let his love wrap around e that when I wake up he’s still going to be here, and it’s up to me to fix this now

Chapter 12

When the doctor finally toldthe lady For the last week, I’ve sat by her side, hoping and praying that I would finally get to take her home

First, they wanted to keep her because of the swelling to her brain fro theht When her head wasn’t the main worry, it seeo, she stopped pissing blood We would’ve been out of here before now, but they wanted to oing on

I think ere all ready to get her out of this rooet frustrated with the constant poking by the staff and lack of good food All I could do was s mad The i this far fro to keep everyone back there up to date with her progress had beco else Somewhere around day seven, I finally passed the phone to Maddox around day seven and told hiive a shit about keeping anyone up to date

I only have eyes for Dee, and allsure that she feels safe I look over at her sleeping face and I physically hurt when I see hoollen it still is

When she finally opened her left eye two nights ago, just a crack, she announced that she could see We all released the collective breath that we had been holding since the doctor had warned us there was a chance her vision could have been impaired from the injury

Her eye really was the least severe of her wounds There wasn’t much of her body that wasn’t covered in nasty black and purple bruises, right down to a few of her fingers

I lean back in the chair that I’ve pulled up next to her bed, and letthat all but stopped h h force to literally rip it off the hinges, I knew so All it took was one word--Dee-- and I was out ofhiht the truck around, and we hit the road fro the drive Her assistant called his phone in a panic She had come to work to find the whole office trashed She would have missed Dee, but in her panic, she tripped over some overturned boxes When she fell, she had a direct line of sight into the break roootten to Dee’s side and called 911, she said she could barely find her pulse That was the last update we got I spent the rest of the car ride thinking that when I finally one The unknoas bad enough, but when I couldn’t stop thinking about what I would do if she were taken froony was almost too much to bear