Bite Me

Chapter 18 - Stay with Me

Song of chapter: Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol
"If I lay here... if I just lay here. Would you lie with me and just forget the world?"

(Riven's point of view)

As the sound of sirens filled my ears, I could no longer hold back on the smirk that was now clear on my face.

This bastard was going to rot in a jail cell for a long time and I'll make sure he stays there. Once I inform my mother about this whole situation and with her being the scary, powerful lawyer that she is, she'll fight to keep him there too.

The police car I'd been waiting for finally pulled over, right towards where I was standing and I simply pointed at the despicable man lying on the floor, still in pain from my punches moments ago.

The police officers quickly got out of their car and the ones who were on duty tonight, I realised I was friendly with. They were actually old friends of my fathers, one being the Chief and the other being his loyal deputy, their names were Frank and Tobey.

Frank has been the Chief of the police force here for as long as I can remember and as for Tobey, well I can still recall when he was training to be a cop years and years ago. Poor Tobey had to deal with my troublesome brother in his rebellious phase at the time.

He never really grew out of that phase though.

"I'll come find her pretty boy, I'll fuck her one day. You can't stop me", the delusional drunk spoke up.

The fact that he still intends to get with her. He plans to come after her and continue what he started, it genuinely makes my skin crawl. Knowing that someone feels that way about Rose truly scares me.

My mom better lock him away for good.

"Son of a bi-", I yell, charging at him but the officers get between us quickly and prevent me from beating his pathetic ass up more.

"Riven, we've got this. Go deal with your girl and we'll get rid of him", the Chief sternly told me and I nodded at his words.

Put the anger aside, focus on Rose - I tell myself.

Both officers then grabbed the man with sheer force, chucking handcuffs around his wrists aggressively and then basically dragging his weak ass to the car, before throwing him inside. Solid effort from them both, they don't mess around and as you can tell, they don't appreciate men who try to abuse women.

While they dealt with the drunk idiot, I instantly fell to my knees in front of Anastasia. My hand found its way to her face and as my fingers grazed her cheek, I nearly flinched at the contact I made with her. She was absolutely freezing, as cold as ice and still completely unconscious, leaving me terribly worried.

She honestly looked dead right now, lifeless even and that hurt my soul more than I'd care to admit.

I don't know if I could cope with the loss of her, especially after everything we've been through.

She has to be okay, I have to remain positive for my own sanity.

She needs to see a doctor, but I didn't want to her to be checked out by any random doctor after everything that happened tonight.

I don't trust anyone with Anastasia and I never have and I never will again.

I decided to contact our family doctor, Dr. Chang, as he could meet me at my place within the next 20 minutes and find out what happened to Anastasia tonight.

Dr. Chang has been our personal doctor since I was about 5, he's always been there to aide our every need whenever we call or text him. During the day and even during the night, if we contacted him then he'd be here for us, every time.