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Within thirty atheredin the early ht Seven am was the perfect tiave e

I was halfway down the path when the sound of heated arguing drew my attention At first, all I spotted was a parked Bentley and a tall olderin front of the silver car

He was in front of Ro furiously at Rou spot I could see Romeo wasfury The older ht in Ros of horrid and offensive curses He edged forward, drew back his fist, and I witnessed Ro back at the force He didn’t retaliate but stood stoic, taking the powerful hit

"Ohod," I whispered to myself

I frantically searched around for help, but there was only me… only them Before I had the chance to run for security, the man in the suit jumped in his Bentley and pulled aith a screech, and I watched as a pue tree and set to punching its trunk over and over, expelling loud grunts before slu to his hands I propped ure out exactly what I’d just witnessed

I warred with myself on what to do Roe oak, I stared at his forlorn figure for severaland hurt My heart ached, and beforeautomatically in the direction of his secluded spot

He hadn’t heard me approach, and I crouched down before hi in the dried mud I quietly removed a bottle of water andAt the sound ofwith blood, perfect white teeth lost in the scarlet bath

"Roht back tears He didn’t speak, just stared at me numbly

I unscrewed the cap from the bottle of Evian and lifted his soiled hand towards h I poured on the water, cleaning out the cuts, deep cuts full of tree bark and dirt I dabbed my hankie at the broken skin He didn’t even flinch

"Does this hurt?" I asked softly He shook his head

When his hand was clean, I edged forward until I was knelt between his slouched legs I tentatively lifteda large open gash on the corner of his beautiful top lip I applied pressure and h the barrier of lasses, and I saw conflict and desolation flicker across the surface

When his lip stopped bleeding, I passed him the bottle of water "Swill your ood"

He took the bottle robotically, doing everything I instructed I hunkered down beside hi theI didn’t want to riskhim worse I just didn’t want hiid posture and stared off into the distance I couldn’t take the sadness any his good hand in ers and subtly angled his shoulder even closer I knee had unresolved issues, especially after our… whatever the hell that was in the corridor, but right now, I could only think of supporting hiht need me