Flower Girl. (Chris Evans)

Chapter 41

*TW: Sexual actions without consent, attack recollection, lawyers, multiple aggressions, bribery and mention of suicide. *

CHRIS.

I press on the gas a little more to arrive home sooner, I know how pushy Scott can be and I don't want Flor to feel overwhelmed, I even leave the groceries in the car.

"Flor! Scott!"

"Living room" I hear Flor say, so I walk into the living room.

"How did you move?" She points to Scott, and I turn to him "What are you doing here?"

"Hi dear brother, I came to say hi since you keep ignoring my calls and texts."

I sigh "I've been busy."

"I can see that, what happened?"

"Can you help me unload the groceries from the car?" He narrows his eyes before taking my keys and going for them "how are you?"

"I'm okay, your brother is fun."

"And you guys are pretty close." She nods

"are you okay with him being here?"

"Chris... are you hiding me?"

"No, of course no, is just... I don't want you uncomfortable."

She frowns "you didn't tell your family I was in the hospital; my parents never called or came so I'm guessing they didn't know either." I say and shake my head "why is that?"

"To be complete honest, Susana told me not to, I'm your emergency contact, I made all the decisions they wouldn't have liked that." She nods "My mom is really good friends with yours so if I would've told her she would've called your mother."

She reaches her hand to me, and I take it "you made the right choice. I'm sorry it sounded like I wasn't okay with it."

"No, it's okay, you deserved an explanation."

"Do I deserve one as well?" Scott asks from the entrance.

I take a deep breath because I know I need to talk about it in front of Flor, she's been piecing everything up, but doesn't know completely what happened, I turn to look at her "do you want me to tell the both of you?"

She frowns. "Are you ready to talk about it?"

"I feel better now that you're home, do you want to know?" She nods and i intertwine our fingers. "I was with Robert in Iowa about to do some press work with People Magazine when Susana called him." I lower my gaze to look at our hands "Flor was at the floral shop by herself waiting for a restock, someone came to rob them and got to her."

"What you mean got to her?" I look at Scott.

"She was attacked." I can watch and hear him gulp.

"How bad?"

But before I can say anything Flor beats me to it "I was waiting for John, when I heard some noises in the back, I asked if someone was there because some of our employees were coming to help me put everything in place, I was about to walk to our offices looking for the noise when the doors opened and hit me on the face... There was a guy, he was talking to himself as if someone was with him..."