Allie

Twenty three

Ryke:

I woke up to an empty bed. I looked around for Allie. But she was no where to be seen. Did she have work today? I remembered her schedule. She normally doesn't on Wednesdays. I stood up and looked out the window to see her truck gone. I walked over to Aspens and Ryders house.

I knocked on the door making sure I won't walk in on them. Because Ryle and Valencia are looking after their sons. So they'll be spending all the time together. Because she said yes to marrying him.

Aspen walks out and her hair is all a mess, top inside out and trousers the wrong way. Suggesting if I did walk in. I would've walked on them. "Do you know where Allie is?" I asked her and she shook her head.
"No I thought she was with you?" I shook my head.

"Last time I saw her, I was with her." I told them and they nodded. And shrugged telling me they have no idea where she could be. I grabbed my phone and called her. Where is she? I looked around cabins in the back to see that she was still not there. The phone went to voicemail straight away. "I'm going to look for her." I told them as we heard a car pulling in.

I flicked my head to see her in the driver seat. To see Allie in the front seat with tears in her eyes. She pulls up and runs straight into the cabin. I walked after her. Wanting to know what's going on. I walked in to see her packing.

"What's going on?" She flicked her head up to me. She's shaking in fear as she watches my expression change and I see the tears roll down her cheeks. I knelt down next to her and went to pull her into me but she flinched.

I stare at her confused. She never flinched or scared of me like this. "Hey... what's going on?" I whispered and a loud sob left her lips. She stares up at me with fear in her eyes. "I need... I need to leave." She answers. I stare at her in disbelief.

"I need to leave." She tells me again. Finally realising that she does. "Look if it was about yesterday. I am so sorry. God, it was a mistake as I knew what the outcome would be." I went to pull her into me.

"It's not that." She flinched again and moved away, she stood up away from me. I'm so confused about her. I looked at her closer to see the red mark across her face and I walked over to her. I don't care. I pull her into me. She tries to push me away but I don't move. "Who did this to you?"

She kept quiet, then I put pieces together. "No! Absolutely not." I pull her onto the bed and sat down and she leans against my shoulder and I had an arm around her shoulders and she had one against my chest.

"Allie. Don't you dare put your life through that." I told her and she shook her head and looked up at me. "I can't! He's going to press charges against you." She told me and I let out a sigh before pressing my forehead against hers.

"Listen Love, you are strong, you finally gotten away from him. Now he's trying to bring you down. Don't let-"

"I got to do this. I'm protecting your life, this farm and everything you've brought up. You deserve all you can get Ryke. I don't want to bring you down because I have this ex that is going to press charges if not otherwise." She stands up and walks over to the suitcase. I walked over to her and helped her up.

"No! I won't let you. I won't let you go back to that man," I told her. And I see the anger in her eyes and then the fear. She's shaking under my grip. Then her eyes met mine. There's regret in them. But she's done nothing to regret, but then I think of what she's going to say she would regret.

"Your no better." I was set back, my eyes widen as I watched her. I knew she would regret it, but that... that's not anything that should be said. I did nothing to her or any other people. "The fuck?!"

"Your no better, you saw a man and walked over to him slammed against the wall and then punched him." My eyebrows stitch together. What the fuck?! I stare at her in disbelief. "Get the fuck out!" I pointed towards the door. "You can grab your shit and leave!" I see the sadness in her eyes. I walked out of the door and slammed it shut. I walked over to my truck.

"Ryke!" I flicked my head towards Allie. She stands there. Tears streaming down her face. She wants to explain but I can never get over what she said. 'I'm no better.' "Your no longer welcome! If you ever come back. I won't be scared to use the police against you!" I jumped into my truck and slammed it shut.

I slam my hands over the wheel five times, annoyed. Im shaking. I gave her my everything, I helped her to escape her ex fiancés and I'm pretty sure her new fiancé if she went back into his arms. God! I turned around and headed straight to the bar. Not Allies. The one in the Main Street.

I pulled up and went straight to the bar and sat down. "Whiskey." They nodded giving me a drink. And they must know I needed it. As it's full and slide it over to me. I took a sip as I grabbed my phone out of my pocket to see a picture of Allie, me, Rex and Nina. I turned on my phone and went to my camera and found a good picture of Nina and put that on my phone screen.

And now, I'm just going to drink. I won't be thinking of anything else other than what she told me for the rest of my life.