this isn’t your best look, Scar,” he said with a light chuckle. I knew the moment that forced laugh escaped his lips that he was avoiding my question.
“You didn’t answer me. Where is Rogue?”
His expression sobered. “Rogue’s okay. We were in the car that hit you. He’s gonna need to go to the hospital. The ambulance will be here soon, Babe. Hold on, okay?”
“Shouldn’t you be with him?”
“He’d have my ass if I weren’t here with you.”
A shout drew my attention back to the mangled car. The sirens were getting closer.
Rocco looked over at the car as he walked up to the passenger side. With a growl, he leaned inside. In a flash, he yanked Johnny Jack’s limp body through the window and onto the concrete. Johnny was bent at an odd angle, like his spine had broken right down the middle. Rocco leaned over and grabbed Johnny’s face in his hands. I couldn’t hear what he was saying over the ringing still going on in my ears and the dissonance in my brain, but I saw the way spit was flying from Rocco’s lips. I could see how his skin was a deep shade of red. I could see the murder in his eyes.
Johnny was barely conscious, if at all. But I could feel his resignation from here. Conscious or not, he knew he was about to die. He reeked of helplessness. And just as the sirens grew loud enough to be just around the corner, Rocco took hold of his neck and twisted it with a sharp jerk, effectively killing Johnny Jack with a snap, just like that.
Luis and I watched in horror, and I felt Luis shake beneath me, from either the cold rain, fear, adrenaline, or all three. But I was fading out of consciousness again. Luis stroked my sodden hair away from my face and swiped my wet cheeks. “Please hold on, Scar. I can’t lose you,” I thought I heard him whisper, right before my vision dimmed.
The next thing to attack me were questions. My body flickered in and out of awareness.
“Does she have an allergies?” a commanding female voice asked.
“She’s allergic to amoxicillin and shellfish,” Luis answered automatically, and if everything didn’t hurt so damn bad, I would have felt warm and fuzzy at his astute memory of me.
“You’re gonna need to let go of her, but move gently, we don’t know how extensive the damage is.”
“It hurts,” I moaned as Luis began to shift. The thudding agony grew with each breath, each hitch and exhale made me burn with a searing pain. Another voice off to my side gathered my attention.
“This man will need to be careflighted!”
“What?” I moaned while hands felt around my arms and legs. I tried to lift up my neck, but a stab of pain made me instantly collapse back down and I saw stars. Tears pricked my eyes. “Rogue? Is it Rogue?”
“Shh, it’s alright, Babe. Just hold still,” Luis said, but his voice sounded shaky. So unlike the usual playful suredness.
“Please let him be okay,” I sobbed, even as the pain in my ribs and head flared.
I looked off to the side, and saw Godfrey with the mystery girl across his lap. She looked unconscious, but it was obvious that he’d been the one to pull her from the burning car. He was looking down at her, his lips moving, but I couldn’t tell what he was saying.
“Bonham?” I asked, looking back up to Luis.
“He’s okay,” he assured me.
“Are you?” I asked, my voice too high and unsteady.
He gave me a small smile. “Don’t you worry about us Heirs, Scar. We always make it through.”
“We need to move her and get you checked out, too,” a voice said.
Luis looked away to the paramedic now hovering over me. “Be careful with her.”
I felt Luis's touch leave my face, and then I was being lifted and put into the back of an ambulance. I passed out as soon as the doors shut.
Pain was a funny thing. On the one hand, it let you know that you were alive—that you survived. On the other hand, it fucking sucked to feel.
Broken collarbone, sprained wrist, concussion, and two broken teeth. My head trauma from the car wreck was pretty bad, but I wasn’t nearly as bad off as the guys.
Godfrey and Luis were discharged yesterday with stab wounds that they played off as being caused by the wreck. The police didn’t buy it, but I was certain that they were willing to