His Game!

Chapter 21

Chapter 21

Carver’s POV

I don’t wait any longer I scoop her up into my arms trying not to hurt her anymore than she already is, I run with her held tightly in my arms and look down at her broken little body I can hardly see her anymore there’s so much blood and I fear the worst. I can nearly feel tears coming to my eyes I am really falling in love with her, my little one...No Carver get a grip of yourself love doesn’t exist you thought your parents were in love but then your mum shot your dad and then herself. There is no such thing as love all there is in this world is hate and anger.

I run into Seth’s office panting “Help me Seth!” he looks up and gasps and me then shouts at Warren and soon he comes running from the store. I place her gently on the bed and let Seth look her over.

“I’m sorry Carver she’s lost a lot of blood and the chances of the baby surviving would be zero...you should just kill her and let her go”

“No there’s a chance however slim that the baby is alive but even if he isn’t I won’t shoot her....now you help her and make her well again!”

He jumps at my order and I take her little hand and press it to my lips if love did exist she would be the one. Seth starts cleaning her and cutting away the bloody clothes so that he can assess the damage. I imagine what it would be like if love was real I’d marry her and we’d live together until we grow old and I’d leave the gang not wanting that life for my little one.

“Carver she needs blood!” Seth shouts snapping me out of my ridiculous fantasies.

“Here take mine” I roll up my sleeve and Warren takes blood from me

I watch desperately as Seth completes the blood transfusion. The door slams open and Cruz walks in followed by Frank.

“What happened?” Cruz asks

“I don’t know yet but little one is barely hanging in there”

“What about the baby?”

“I don’t know”

“Carver there’s no point in keeping her alive unless the baby is fine”

“She dies when I say she dies!”I shout at them “Check the baby’s condition”

Seth takes out the ultra sound and I hold my breath if my baby is dead the men will make sure that little one dies too...the would kill her without me knowing and make it look like an accident. 

“Well he defiantly has a strong heart beat...he’s a survivor and a fighter it seems that Dakota made herself vulnerable so that the baby was safe...she sacrificed herself for her child and I’m in awe of her right now I mean none of these other girls would have done that I can guarantee that....now Dakota she’s a different story she’s hanging by thread my main concern is her wrists they had glass in them but thankfully didn’t hit any main arteries or veins. Her jaw is swollen but not broken, she has a bruised rib and bruising to her spine that is in the shape of feet”

“So what do you think happened?” I ask

“I think Dakota was ganged up on by someone obviously they hit her in the stomach once and it looks like she rolled away so that the baby was safe. She’s lost a lot of blood but we won’t know what happened until she wakes up and even then she’ll be in a lot of pain”

“So we wait until she wakes”

“It’s going to be a while Carve” Seth says

“I don’t care I’m not moving from her side...I need you 2 to find out what happened someone knows something apart from Chloe she was absent from the room”

Everyone leaves the room leaving me alone with her. I take her hand careful not to move the IV and place a kiss on it.

“Can you hear me little one?” I sigh and run my fingers through her bloody blonde hair “Of course you can’t...don’t leave me little one I need you...for a very long I’ve been the gang guy but being with you around you I’m just me you bring out the good in me and I don’t want to lose that or you. I can be myself with you and I love that I’m free with you. We’ve had some good times my favourite was when we danced in the kitchen that’s the very first time I felt like love was real and not just a fairy tale, if I believed in love and if it was real I’d say without a doubt I’m falling in love with you little one”

Dakota’s POV

I blink my eyes trying to open them but I just can’t. I open them a little and see Carver sitting by me sleeping and holding my hand. I move my fingers and his hand moves along with mine meaning that he felt me stirring. I try again and open my eyes and this time I succeed.    

“Welcome back little one...how are you feeling?” he asks brushing his hair back off his forehead

“Sore, everything hurts”

“Little one I need you to tell me what happened? Who did this to you?”

I think about it what would he do to Lilly and Amelia? He would probably kill them in the worst way imaginable. Do I really want their deaths on my hands I mean they nearly killed my baby but does that mean I condemn them to an inhumane death?

“I don’t know what happened...I can’t remember anything the last thing I can remember is being in Seth’s office for the challenge”

“Can you remember anything after that?”

“No everything is fuzzy....I have always been a klutz I must I have fallen or something...I don’t know”

“Little one if you are scared to tell me who it was and what happened I can promise tell me and they won’t ever touch you again”

“I don’t know like I said everything’s fuzzy”

Then a thought hits me like a ton of bricks what about my baby?

“Carver, is my baby alive?” I whisper feeling the anxiety hit me at the thought of having lost my little life and my baby.

“Don’t worry he’s fine...he’s a survivor just like you little one”

“Thank GOD I couldn’t live knowing my baby is dead...he’s all I have left”

“You have me little one”

“But I don’t you’ll never give me your heart and I don’t love you”

He stands up and my breathing hitches what did I just do?

“I don’t believe in love little one but I’m the one who’s keeping you alive...I gave you my blood to keep you alive it’s not love because there’s no such thing but I care for you. I can’t eat, I can’t sleep and my every waking thought is consumed with you little one it might not be love but it’s the best thing I have got” he walks to the door and then looks back at me

“Carver you don’t believe in love because no one has ever shown you any”

For a minute it looks like he might cry but he shakes his head

“I don’t believe in love little one because it’s fairytale and this is the hard reality”

And with that he leaves me, he cares for me or did I just hear him wrong?