Wholly Apart

Chapter 38

LOREN KENSINGTON

It took over an hour and a half for me to calm Madelyn down enough to find out that he hadn't raped her again. Hadn't put his fucking fingers between her thighs.

By that point the nurses were already done with their exam, the police had come by for a statement to which Madelyn had said absolutely nothing, just silently crying in my lap.

I had said what I knew had happened and told them to go and talk to Emma since she was probably in a better state to talk about it.

And now I was just sitting with her in the bed, holding her to me.

None of the nurses had said anything at all about it thankfully. Maybe they had seen that I wouldn't let her go no matter what.

She had stopped crying, stopped trembling.

"Is... is Emma okay?" She whispered after a long time, the first words she had said since the attack.

She had her head on my chest, laying between my thighs with her hands curled into my hoodie. The nurses had given her some light pants to wear since she didn't have any.

I ran my fingers through her hair softly, calming her down.

I hadn't seen Emma since they'd separated the girls at the hospital, but she'd had blood on her mouth and a nasty cut under her chin.

"I'm not sure," I told her, "Do you want me to text Warren?"

He'd stayed with her. He'd not left her side.

And if I had had an ounce of teasing in me, I would have said something about it. I would have said to Madelyn that maybe she was right with those two.

But I couldn't bring myself to.

Because my father had let that bastard out of prison. And he had managed to find Madelyn and hurt her again.

She nodded quickly, so I pulled out my phone and texted him.

Is Emma alright? ~ Lo

Warren answered nearly immediately, probably having nothing to do and waiting for them to be done with examining Emma.

She's got a concussion and a cut beneath her chin. But otherwise, she seems okay ~ Warren

What about Madelyn? ~ Warren

"Warren says she has a concussion and a small cut, but she's alright," I read to her and Madelyn seemed to relax a little in my lap.

Physically fine. Mentally, no idea. She hasn't said a single thing except ask how Emma is ~ Lo

Yeah, Emma keeps asking about Madelyn too ~ Warren

Did she not tell you what happened? Emma's really worried, she told me she saw some fucked up shit ~ Warren

"Maddy?" I asked, running my hand down her spine, trying to relax her, "Can you tell me what happened?"

She tensed up a little again and then took a while to nod her head yes. Since she had her head on my chest I couldn't see her face. But she couldn't see me text behind her back either.

What did she say? ~ Lo

"We were leaving the uni and then they jumped out and grabbed us," she whispered, backing closer to me like she wanted more contact, "Emma hit them and then we locked ourselves in one of the classrooms, but they got in"

Jesus fuck.

I would kill that guy if I ever ran into him. Even more so than I had wanted to before. I'd probably torture him for scaring her this much. Make it a slow and painful death because that's the last he deserved.