After You Left

Chapter 28

I pace across the room, waiting for Dylan to come, he said he's on his way, Damien wanted to go drive home the city, through our checkpoints and landmarks to check and James volunteered to take him, Alex and Alexa are staying in today and Drew and Liv went to do a drive around Henry's perimeter whilst Connor was left by the nanny.

The sound of tires on gravel gets me back to reality as I sigh relieved when I hear the knocking on the door, I open it and Dylan smiles at me, Davina kept behind him but as soon as she saw me she smiles and drops Dylan's hand and throws her arms around my stomach, I go down and pull her to my chest, she winced slightly but returns the hug. "Dylan said we're staying here." She says quietly, there's so much hurt in her voice and her clothes are still bloodied up.

"That is correct and why don't we get you settled down, I made some chocolate cake and I made sure to get all your favourite books." I tell her and pull back, she nods with a small smile and takes Dylan's hand again, he gives me an appreciating smile and we make our way up the stairs and into Dylan's room, where now there's 2 beds instead of one, Davina's side is decorated with pink and posters about her favourite characters and books and I made sure to get her bookshelves filled with books.

Someone knocks on the door getting our attention, it's Alexa, I had asked her to tend to Davina because Dylan asked for it.
I bend down. "That's a close friend of mines, she will help clean your cuts and make sure you have no big injuries." Davina looks up at Dylan and he gives her a reassures smile and she drops his hand hesitantly.

"I'll be right outside." He drops a lot on the top of her hear before we both walk away, he nods to Alexa and she smiles at him before closing the door, Dylan steps back to the wall and he slides down it, I sit next to him and take his hand in mines. "He raped her." He says quietly. "He hurt her, he made his men hurt her." Dylan pulls his knees to his chest.

I'm too in shock. "I can't say anything that will make it better but I will promise you that I'm here for you Dyl." I say and lay my head on his shoulder.

"I'm really wishing I hadn't met you Lea." He says so quietly and so broken, I nod as tears roll down my cheeks. We stay like that for nearly an hour before Alexa opens the door again.

"She'll need rest, lots of it, I need to talk to someone else in regards to her medications and all, it might take a while for the trauma to pass, she needs comfort, lots of it, friends." Alexa says comfortingly. "She needs time." Dylan nods and walks inside the room, Alexa smiles at me and goes her own way, I allow one last look at Dylan and Davina, he's just holding her to his chest and they're talking in hushed voices, I take that as my lead to walk away.

I'm really wishing I hadn't met you.
I change into some workout clothes and make my way to the gym, my fingerprint unlocks the door and I step into the gym heading straight to the boxing centre where a punching bag already hangs, I grab a pair of gloves and strap them in before I take everything out on the bag.
Everything faded as I kept my focus on the bag, it was rage and hurt keeping me up and going, I didn't care about the pain that followed after the punches and kicks, until my righ fist tears through the bag and unbearable pain ruptures up my arm.

I grit my teeth as I quickly take out the glove. "You're lucky you didn't break your wrist." I snap around to find Damien leaning against the wall by the door, he walks towards me.

"When did you get here?" I ask curiously, Damien grabs my wrist gently, still getting a wince out of me from the pain.

"About an hour ago." He says. "You'll definitely need an ice pack for this." I nod and sit down on the mat, Damien sits beside me and he sighs. "What was on your mind?"

"Everything." I bring my knees to my chest. "It's crazy to think that 3 years ago I was struggling with high school and now with everything happening, I'd give anything just to go back in time."

"3 years ago I was trying to find you, Connor had just joined, Davina was beside me, always happy." Damien says.

"I wish I had never gotten involved in this whole thing." I say quietly and drop my head in my knees. "I'm so tired." My eyes well up as a sob breaks out of me.

"You've come such a long way Lea, don't give up." Damien comforts, his hand runs up and down my spine and he drops a feather like kiss on my head, I release a breath and pull back, I wipe my tears on my sleeve and stand up. "I have been thinking." Damien starts. "I want to get you away from all this."

I frown confused. "What do you mean, like a night out or something?"

Damien shakes his head. "I want to get you to safety until this whole thing ends."

"Get me away?" I ask again, Damien nods, his eyes stern with seriousness. "No." I roll my eyes and turn around to walk away.

Damien grabs my hand and turns me back to him. "It's not safe here Lea."

I pull my hand. "I don't care, I'm not leaving until I see his head blown up."

Damien groans frustrated. "It's dangerous for God's sake, if you stay you die."

"I don't care if I die!" I yell angry.

"I do." Damien yells back. "I already lost you before this, I'm not planning on losing you again." I take a deep breath in and out. "I can't lose you again." His eyes soften with his voice. "It hurts."

"I know but-" Damien closes his eyes and walks past me with a sigh, the door opens and closes, guilt flushes through me.

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I knock softly before opening the door slowly, the bathroom door opens and Damien walks out shirtless getting a gasp from me but he's quickly grabbing a shirt to wear but I'm already striding towards him. "You never said how it bad it was." I whisper as I brush my hand over the scars, the scorpion tattoo was gone and there were burnt scars on it. "Damien-" He quickly pulls away and slides his shirt over his head. "You need to talk to someone about it." I say quietly.

Damien scoffs and turns back to me and I see the fear and hurt in his eyes. "Talk so they can just give me pitying looks."

"But if you don't than you'll be eating yourself." I counter.

"It hurts, everything hurts." Damien says frustrated, he releases a shuddering breath. "I'll leave you be." He mumbles and starts to leave  it I grab his hand. Damien has been refusing to sleep in the same room as me ever since he came back, he didn't want to invade my privacy or something like that, his words.

"Stay the night." I hug him from behind. "Please stay."

"I don't want to hurt you princess." He says just above a whisper.

"You'd never hurt me pumpkin."

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And I'm back with another chapter in this very slow updated book.
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I am simply going with the flow in this book, hoping it ends well.
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