Halfway Gone (Camren)

Chapter 16: My Lifeline

Camila's POV
I saw her final breaths. She managed to just open up her eyes, and look in my direction before she drifted. I was screaming at her to stay with me, to wake up and not leave me.

That bastard kept on tasing her, far more than what any human can take, and she reached her breaking point. I still remember the jolting of her body as the electric shocks rippled through her. They forced me away from her, and proceeded to drag her body to the next room. I was inconsolable, screaming at the top of my lungs, the pain in my chest was so severe, I wanted to die in that moment. My heart had quite literally torn from my chest, and taken with Lauren's body.

I was still in shock. I started to uncontrollably shake, I couldn't stop screaming and weeping her name.

"Shutup doll, you'll find yourself another girl don't worry." Brad spoke while packing away his taser.

There was so much anger in me, I looked up at him with my eyes bloodshot and heartbroken. God was on my side at that moment, I felt a presence in the air as I fight off the rope bounding my hands. It was only me and him left in the room, the others were attending to my baby's lifeless body in the other room. I scream as I tear off the rope and start charging toward him, and I manage to slap his face so hard that my handprint would be printed on there for days. He fell to the ground, holding his cheek in pain.

"YOU-"

*kick*

"JUST-"

*kick*

"KILLED-"

*kick*

"HER-"

I was still trying to understand what had just happened. Flashes in my mind showed me the last look in her eye before her body slumped, and I couldn't bare to see it. I can't believe she is actually gone.

The pathetic man got up, and something told me to just focus. I was going to kill this man. I caught a sight of a wrench on a nearby bench, and I grasped it, then threw it as hard as I possibly can at his face. He dodged it, and started charging toward me. I rummaged through the bench trying to find something else to potentially throw at him, as I started to retreat I found a nail gun still plugged into the wall. I aim it straight at his disgusting face and start shooting. I see the abundance of dots start drawing blood from his face, and he crouched down in sheer pain. I run past him, and into the room where Lauren is.

"MOVE!"

At this point, all the men respectfully moved away from her body and let me savour these last few moments with her. They stood back, and I saw the look on Rocky's face, like he had just lost her too. I hope he felt shit, as this was partially his fault.

"Camila, trust me I never meant for this to happen...I tried-" Rocky tried to reason, holding back tears himself.

"DON'T- just don't." My cries invaded my voice, and I kneel down next to her poorly battered body.

I lean so my head was on her chest, "My baby, what have they done to you."

I start to weep on her chest, letting my cries fill the room, enough to make the grown men shed a tear.

"You have my whole entire heart baby, you have it, you have it, you have it..." I repeat my words as I howl. I lift up her head, still somehow feeling some static, and kiss her lips one final time. My eyes lit up, as I felt the warmth still on her lips. She's still in there, somewhere in that mind of hers. I can feel it. I felt her pulse on her neck, hoping to god that I'd feel something, anything.

But I couldn't feel anything.

Unaware of what's happening behind me, I hear the door shut suddenly, and I hear a latch lock it shut. The men left, leaving me and her alone.