Where Are You Now?

It Is

Chapter 45

Josh's P.O.V

It's almost twelve right now and nothing but her silence and my thoughts are all that I can hear. She hasn't said anything for almost a while now other than answering a few phone calls from her mother and Robert.

Which I still don't understand what the fuck he wants from her to call her at this time.

"Yeah?" She says in her hoarse voice answering another phone call. "I'm really sorry I didn't want any of this to happen." She says coughing and it breaks my heart to see her like this. "Okay." She softly says and hangs up.

"What did he want?" I coldly ask her. "To make sure everything is okay. It was his house." She tells me and instead of arguing I decide to leave it to this.

"I love you Josh." She says and these three words coming out of her mouth is all that I want to ever hear. "I love you more." I tell her taking her hand in mine which makes her smile.

I walk past the same buildings that we came across half an hour ago and keep on driving to our apartment. It's the only place that she could escape to now. And the reason I kept driving for an hour is because I wanted her to talk to me and I wanted to spend some time with her.

I park the car in front of the building and George's car isn't here yet which means that they still all are at Sasha's party but Zack which was with me before I got a phone call from George telling me that she needed me.

I look over at her to see her sleeping looking so fucking perfect. I leave the car and open the passenger's door before gently carrying her. "Josh." She whispers opening her eyes. "It's okay." I reassure her that she's with me and watch her close her eyes again.

I carry her all the way to our apartment and knock twice before Zack opens the door. "Is she okay?" He asks as soon as I come in. "Yeah, she will be." I answer him and place her on my bed in my room.

I brush her hair away from her face and place a kiss on her cheek before I leave the room. "Josh." I hear her soft voice before I could leave and I turn to see her eyes almost open. "Yeah?" I answer her with a small smile and sit on bed next to her. "Stay with me. Please." She begs in her hoarse voice holding my hand tightly. "I'm not going anywhere." I tell her and she gives me a small smile before closing her eyes again. "I love you so much." She whispers. "I love you much more." I tell her and watch her as she falls asleep.

How did I get here? I fell in love with the perfect innocent girl that I thought I would never get her to even look at me or spend a moment with me but now she's begging me to stay next to her while she falls asleep. Now, I'm her comfort and the only person she'd never live without.

I leave the room once I make sure she's asleep closing the door behind me to find Zack, George and Austin in the living room. "What happened?" Zack asks me.

"They pointed a gun at her; the same asshole from the night before." I tell them sitting next to George and in front of the others.

"They threatened her to leave me or else they are going to start killing anyone she loves." I continue and anger fills me in once again.

"He has to know that she's his daughter before he does anything stupid. You know he just gives orders without any information." Austin says and that's the last thing I would do.

"No way." I say the thought of her knowing the truth about her father will kill her because there's no way I'm going to let him take her away from me. "Mate, you don't have any choice. It's for her own good. You know she wouldn't take it if someone she loves dies." Austin tells me and for the first time he's right. "She won't know that he's her father." I warn them and they all nod. "Leave it for me to tell him then." I say and they all jump in surprise. "You know he wants to fucking kill you." Zack says angrily.

I'm dead without her.

"If she doesn't know the truth about him which she won't he'll take her away from me once he knows and I can't let that happen." I tell them and it came l that I've expected; the day that I might be losing her forever. I knew this day was coming but I never thought it would be this close.

"He will run away again." George says referring to the time he killed my father and ran away.

"I won't allow it this time." I tell him remembering the years he spent hiding.

"We're going tomorrow then." Austin says standing. "Okay, but leave the talking to me." I say and he nods in agreement and watch him go to his room.

"I'm sorry mate." Zack says. "It's okay." I tell him standing and regret every second I spent pushing her away from me instead of loving her.

I enter my room to find her still asleep, I lay next to her on bed and pull her closer to me and listen to her breathing. Hoping for the sake of God this isn't the last time I sleep next to her.

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