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After calo to find ot to fucking give, so can no longer go on
"Kadence?" I knock on the bathrooain when she doesn’t respond I knohen she is stressed, when things become too much for her, she likes to hide in here The first ti in the e vacantly ahead I didn’t knohat the fuck was happening I walked in late one day with Low screa to keep her cal us all It took me thirty minutes for her to co
"Kadence, just fuckin’ respond" I knock again, that s has ain She doesn’t respond and the dread that for that I wasn’t prepared for
"Open this fuckin’ door before I knock it down" My fear coer, but each second she doesn’t respond, is another second that , and in one forceful kick, I break past the lock; the door flying back in a loud thud My eyes scan the bathroom in frantic need to know she is safe, that she hasn’t done soive her for My body convulses when I see her sitting on the shower floor
Her head comes up, surprise written all over her face as if my entry into the bathroo, but the despair and anger ripping through ister what she needs I’m too pissed off
"What the fuck is your proble her body recoil from my words
She recovers, but doesn’t respond, just looks at row Stepping forward, I pull the glass shower door open while she continues to look straight through me My first instinct is to pick her up and shake soht now, it won’t getto warasp fills the sht before shemy frame in the door way
"Fuckin’ talk to me, dammit!" I shout and she trembles under my stare
"Where the fuck were you?" She finally reacts, trying to push me out of the way "You left You said thirty minutes, Nix" Her fists connect with ins to sob
My ar her while she screams out and comes undone I fucked up I know I did, but I can’t help feel a s I hold her for a briefboth of us I reach back and shut it off, holding her firmly in my arms
"Just breathe, baby" I reach for the towel and wrap her tightly in it Silent sobs rack her body "Deep breaths," I encourage again, when I sense her losing the battle to control the I did this to her, but I don’t kno much more of it I can handle It takes her a fewslows and her sobs finally fade
I don’t move her, afraid to set off another round, so I hold her inI haven’t just fucked up shit eventhat eventually she will talk, because so The one that tells er I’ll have her for And not having Kadence inoption
CHAPTER FOUR
Kadence
I sit on the side of the bathtub as Nix dries s overI can’t even look at him let alone talk to him How could he just leave me?
After I fed Low, Z came up and played with her a little while I sat and watched them I can’t pinpoint exactly what it was that setquestions and as the ti later and later It all became too much--my unease rose inside of me with each minute that passed The pressure of when, or if he was even co home at all amplified the panic that lay dorhts I used to like it when he called me baby, when he would touch me, make me feel beautiful, but now somewhere in my mind, the word baby doesn’t represent what it once did His touch doesn’t soothe me like it used to, and not one part ofhis hands on me as I slide down from where he placed me
"We need to talk about what happened" He follows ht He does this all the tiets the reaction he wants It’s in thoseto bed" I turn and pull out sweats and one of Nix’s old club tees fronore hi to walk past hi aroundout of his hold as he reels back at my tone