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and groggy.
“Baby, I need you to stay awake. Can you stay awake for me?” I pushed the hair out of her eyes. Her face was red and swollen, looking as though she’d been punched a couple of times. Rage filled me. I looked over her body. She was also bleeding from the left side of her body. Fucker!
“Beth, talk to me!” I looked at her while running my fingers over her hair. She opened her eyes.
“I fought back.” She smiled. “Did you see Andrew? Did I fuck him up?”
I heard yelling and I looked over at Berg. He was on the ground with a knife sticking out of his chest, and I saw Beth’s CRV taking off down the road in the pouring rain.
Fuck!
I picked up Beth because I sure as shit wasn’t leaving her side. I ran to Berg as quickly as I could without sliding on the wet dirt. I dropped to the ground with Beth in my arms.
“Berg! Berg! Shit!”
The knife stuck out right below the ribcage. I imagined that the knife was in his liver or stomach. I knew better than to pull it out.
“I’m okay, sort of, I mean, except for this fucking knife sticking out of me.” He laughed and then moaned in pain. “How is she?”
“I don’t know. She won’t stay awake, but she’s breathing.”
I looked at her leg and I saw that the blood was soaking through my shirt.
“Her leg is bleeding bad! I don’t know if he hit her femoral artery or not.”
I pulled out my phone and dialed 911. That’s when I heard the police sirens. Two officers jumped out of a car.
“He took off in a white CRV going north. He is wearing a white mask on his face.”
The two officers jumped in the police car and pursued Andrew. Another police car parked, and the officers ran over with a medical bag.
One cop spoke into his walkie talkie, “I need two ambulances on the scene¸ immediately!”
Chapter 36 – Roman
Berg and Beth were both in surgery. I called Eric, Phoebe, Eve, and Joey’s school and told them briefly what happened and where we were. Eric said he would get Tara to go pick up Joey from school, and she would watch him at Eric’s house.
I didn’t have a shirt on and a nurse was nice enough to give me a scrub top. I was sitting in the waiting room between Eve and Phoebe with my head in my hands. We were the only ones in the room. What would I do if I lost Beth or Berg? I couldn’t handle this. I felt as though I am going to break. I couldn’t cry. Why couldn’t I cry? I felt restless, so I stood and paced.
The door to the waiting room flew open. Eric walked in.
“You, this is your fault!” Eric rushed me. “You are going to end up getting her killed! I knew it would be a mistake for her to marry you!”
Even though part of me couldn’t argue with what he was saying, I was not in the mood right now.
I stated in my most deadly voice, “Eric, you seem to forget, Beth is mine, not yours. She is my wife, not yours! You tend to forget that, my friend.”
“Oh, we are not friends. You are nothing but a mistake that Beth made.”
I grabbed his shirt and threw him up against the wall. I was enraged.
“You’re just jealous because Beth has always wanted me, even when she was married to you! Now that it’s a reality, you can’t handle it.”
“She will realize that you were nothing but a bump in the road and she will come back home where her and Joey belong.”
“Have you shared that bit of news with your girlfriend, Tara?” I asked, and he, in turn, grabbed my shirt.
“I should kick your ass right now.”
“Oh you could try, but I guarantee you, it will be nothing but trying. Not with the way I feel right now.”
Eve stood and came over to Eric and me. “Stop it! Stop it, you two. This doesn’t help anything.”
“Eve, how can you stand him? He does nothing but put Beth in danger.”
“Maybe because I know that it is not Roman’s fault. Beth got into this situation all by herself. She chose to go to the concert. She was taken. Roman had nothing to do with Beth being abducted. Eric, don’t throw stones because we both know that you aren’t so perfect either.” Eve pointed at Eric.
I was curious. “Eve? What are