America's Princess (Random Updates)

Chapter 16

Beep Beep Beep

Olivia groaned as she slowly woke up.

"Hey Boss Lady, easy now," Ava's voice filtered into her mind as she woke up more. Memories of what happened came rushing back, making Olivia gasp as panic overrode the pain she was feeling.

"Breathe, Olivia," Sean's voice demanded gently as an oxygen mask was placed over her nose and mouth. "Breathe in and out, Olivia. You're safe, you're okay, I need you to breathe in and out with me. In," he commanded as he kept her looking at him, "and out." Tears streamed down her face, and she wrapped her hand around his wrist. "In," he said softly, "and out. Good girl, just like that, you are doing such a good job," he praised as he kept her hand on his wrist. "Good girl."

Once he was sure she was out of the panic attack he slowly removed the oxygen mask. "Owww," she groaned after he moved the bed into a sitting position.

"I'm sorry, this will help in just a minute," Sean said as he messed with the bag hanging from a pole beside her.

She looked around the room to see the whole group, even Uncle, there. "You stopped him," she croaked since her throat felt tight.

"Yes, but you got him pretty good too," Sean nodded.

"I did?" She asked, confused.

"You don't remember?" Sean asked gently as he sat on the edge of the bed.

She thought for a moment, "I just remember swinging the knife Raven gave me then Raven and North shouting," she gasped, "oh god, did I?"

"Nyet," Raven shook his head.

"You didn't get us, Livy Baby," North shook his head. "You got the asshole."

"Pretty good too," Gabe chuckled.

"I did?"

Sean smirked before clearing his throat, "You got his thigh, his stomach, and you almost made him a eunuch, Olivia."

"A what?" She asked, confused.

"Oy, what Doc is trying to say professionally is that you almost cut his fucking dick off," Gabe said once he was able to calm down from laughing. "It was fucking awesome; they aren't sure they can repair it."

"Oh," She murmured as she looked down at her hands. "How much trouble am I in?"

"None," Uncle said as he came over to her. "It was clearly in self-defense, Olivia. You aren't in any trouble at all."

"It has already been leaked though, Boss Lady," Ava said gently. "I think we should lay low for a bit. It's going to be a frenzy if you tried to do anything right now."

"She's right, Little One," Uncle nodded. "If you try to do anything right now the press is going to be all over it and besides, mentally, you need to recover from this. I need to know, Little One, has this happened before? Is that why you had so many locks on your door?"

She refused to look up at him, "it happened a few times, only when he was really drunk. He said since I prevented him from finding love because he had to take care of me, I owed him."

"You know that's not true, right?" Uncle asked softly.

"I know," she nodded then flinched as her throat hurt. "But no one is going to want me now that I've been ruined."

"That's not true," Uncle put his finger under her chin and carefully raised her face so she could look him in the eyes. "Your true love or loves will never consider you ruined. This was not your fault, and they will understand that I promise you. Do you want to know how I know?" She barely nodded, "I know because my wife went through something very similar, and I never once thought she was ruined or tainted or destroyed or anything like that. I thought she was very brave to endure something like that and it made our love stronger because I knew that when I finally earned her trust and love that it was something special that she gave me willingly. She didn't have to, she could never have trusted me or loved me, but she chose to and that meant the world to me. Your love or loves will feel the same way, I promise you."

"Thank you," she whispered as a few tears slipped free. "I don't want to go back."

"You don't have to," he smiled fondly.

"Kitten," Raven said as he walked over to them. "Let's go Motherland. Nyet work, just get away. Family home protect you, stay long as want. Just get away from all, take time heal. Da?"

She smiled softly as much as her busted lip let her, "That sounds perfect, Yevgeny." He beamed and nodded, "Can Max come too?"