Loving The Reigns

Chapter 22

"Trust me Jade your life will only get better. You'll be in a beautiful house, have wonderful neighbors, and have a husband who not only loves you unconditionally but is well kept financially," psycho says.

"Yeah. Trust the guy who's taking everything away from me," I say with venom and sarcasm in my voice.

"You'll learn. I'm not the same guy from high school, Jade. I'm improved."

"That's what I'm afraid of."

"Quiet. Now you should be able to walk normally. I didn't give you the same dosage my friend gave you. Luckily for you I care."

Yay. Lucky me. But he's right. I can walk normally now. "Drew let her go. If you really do love her, you'd let her go."

Drew and I turn around to see Shawn standing there. I don't want to stand here and try to figure out how he got here so fast. The point is he's here to get me. Maybe I won't have to be gone for days.

He quickly grabs me and holds me tight. "Would you let Clara go?"

"There's a difference. She's with me on free will. Your forcing Jade to be with you. Is that how you want to live with her? Always feeling her hatred and not her love? Listen I know what you're going through-"

"You don't know a damn thing about me so don't pretend like you do!"

Someone attacked Drew from behind, making him release his grip on me. I didn't see who it was because my focus was on getting away.

I ran all the way to Shawn before I looked back at the person who struck Drew. It was Roman!

Drew hit Roman in the head with a gun that I didn't know he had. Roman fell down. "This is who you want, Jade! The about to be dead man lying on the ground right now!"

"No!" My heart. "Drew, killing him won't make me want you. Nothing will."

"You're right. It won't. You never wanted me. Not then. Not now. You won't want me, ever. You know the saying 'if I can't have you nobody can'? Goodbye Jade."

Drew aimed the gun towards me. My eyes went big once I realized he's actually going to do it. He's going to pull the trigger.

The gun went off, but I didn't feel anything. I touched my body and felt no blood. He missed...me.

I looked down and saw Shawn's body lying on the floor. He was holding the side of his stomach and he was bleeding, a lot. "Oh god Shawn."

"Remember how we were little and we were obsessed with action movies? Every time someone got shot, we would say 'I wonder what it's like to get shot'. Then mom would ground us for saying it. Jade, it really does hurt like a bitch."

"Shhh. Don't talk, don't talk. Please. Save all of your energy. I know Mark's coming because he's always behind you. He'll take you to a hospital, then you'll be all better. Just please Shawn, don't talk," I say. I hope he can hear what I'm saying through my sobs.

"Jade I'm so sorry," the voice of Drew comes in.

"Go away you fucking monster! You shot my brother!"

"I love you."

"Go away please." I don't have the strength to continue yelling at him. "Haven't you done enough? Just please, leave me and my family alone."

"Sorry." He ran away into the dark night. I look back at Shawn from sitting on my knees. His eyes are closed. He's not moving.

"Shawn? Please open your eyes. Don't give up. Please. You have a successful business. You have friends and parents who's waiting to see you again. Don't forget about your siblings. We love you and need our big brother. And what about Clara? Your supposed to marry her and help raise the baby. Shawn, please don't give up."