The HeartBreaker

Chapter 9: Clues

Jake

I haven't been avoiding Abigail. I just been busy with my 'job,' as I call it. I couldn't let her get caught up in this mess. I felt like an ass for not telling her or even calling her. I was going to have to tell her sooner or later, or before anyone in the cartel found out about us, whatever we were. I arrived at my house and sat on my bed, just as I did that my phone started to ring.

I answered it and it was Abigail. Why was she calling me at this hour?

"Abigail?" I asked with a little worry in my voice.

"Can you come pick me up, please?" She asked, she sounded almost out of breath.

"Where are you?" I said as I grabbed my keys and started my car and pulled out of my driveway

"Uhh," she was silent, "I don't know, I feel dizzy. I can't.." then I heard a thud and sped my car to overdrive.

"Abigail!" I yelled into the phone and heard nothing but silence. I ended the call and asked my buddy to find her location and he gave me it and she was a little ways a way from the 'Star Hotel'

I sped up, even quicker and finally arrived. I jumped out and searched for her and finally found her on the ground. I ran over to her and tried to call her name to wake her up but she was barely breathing and I was panicking. I picked her up, managing to grab her phone and set her in my car and drove her to the hospital.

"It's going to be okay,love. I'm so sorry." I said and parked the car, ran around to her side and picked her up and ran in the hospital.

"Help, my girlfriend, she passed out and shes not breathing." I said and two nurses and a doctor came rushing over and I laid her on a gurney and they wheeled her in the room and thats the last I saw of her. I unlocked her phone and dialed her best friends;Chrissy and Luke. I told them to meet me here and they said yes but Luke kept asking questions and I told him I would answer them when they got here.

I knew everything about, Abigail. I did a little background check on her and found out some little things about her.

15minutes later and both Luke and Chrissy came rushing in and I stopped them in their path. Their eyes traveled up and down my body. I smirked but it faded when I saw their worried faces.

"Im Jake, Im sure Abigail told you a lot about me. I will explain everything to her about why I didn't speak to her for almost a week. Abigail called me tonight, she sounded out of breath and even scared. She was about to tell me something, when she passed out and when I got to her, she was barely breathing. Do you know why she was out? Who she was with?" I asked and they both looked guilty.

"I saw her walk out of the bar with a man. He even bought her a drink at the bar, I thought it was a sweet gesture but turns out it wasn't. She even was grinding against him." Chrissy said and I balled my hands into fists.

"Fuck!" I roared and they both took a step backwards.

"This is all my fault, how did I not see this coming?" I yelled, I was getting angrier by the minute. I was angry at myself and at Abigail for dancing with him.

"What did he look like?" I asked, I hoped the man they described was not who I was thinking.

"He was attractive, black hair, brown eyes, about your height, I think he was Italian." Luke said and I groaned and punched the wall.

"What? You know him?" Chrissy and Luke both asked and I nodded.

"Who is he?" Luke asked and I sighed. I ushered them to follow me outside. They followed and I hoped they wouldn't run away screaming after I told them this.

"His name is Franco Rossi, a murderer, a cartel leader and even a drug dealer." I said and there eyes grew wide.

"How would you know that? Unless..." Chrissy said but trailed off. I knew she figured it out, she was a smart girl.

"You're just like him, Jake Summers. Now I know who you are, I heard about you. There just hasn't been any pictures of you. Oh my god! I forbid you to see Abigail. She can't get hurt." Chrissy said and I bowed my head.

"I can't leave her alone, thats the thing. I like her, I find her really attractive and her personality is great. Also there is no pictures of me because I don't get caught." I said and even smiled while saying it.

"I was going to ask her to be my girlfriend, trust me when I say, I would never put her in harms way. I care about her and would put my life on the line for hers." I said and looked into both of their eyes.

"Fine. If you hurt her, I will cut your balls off and turn you into the cops." Chrissy said and I smirked.

"You guys can't say any of this to, Abigail. Not yet, I have to be the one to tell her." I begged and they both nodded.

"Also Luke, I'm sorry about what Andrew did to you. I fucked him up real good, you deserve to be happy whether you're gay or not." I said and patted his shoulder before I walked back into the hospital.

***
Abigail was awake and I was eager yet scared to see her. I wanted to see her and make sure she was okay. Chrissy and Luke are currently in there and I told them that I would wait for them to leave so I could talk to Abigail alone.

Chrissy and Luke both walked out and nodded for me to go in. I noticed the glare that Chrissy gave me and I smiled back at her.

I walked in and Abigail was laying on the hospital bed, in a hospital gown, looking out the window and she looked sad. She looked over at me and I could tell she was going to cry. I walked over go her and grabbed her hand in mine.

"Hush, love, you're okay. I saved you." I coaxed her and she nodded and relaxed a little.

"All I could get out of the doctors was that, the drink you drank was drugged but I don't know the specific drug." I said and she nodded.

"Chrissy told me that you had something you wanted to say to me?" She asked and I gulped. I don't know how to tell her.

"Uh..yeah, I like you and was wondering if you would be my girlfriend. I'm sorry that I didn't speak to you for a week but something came up in work and I had to tend to it. I understand if you say no, I'm dangerous, mysterious and even a liar but I do care about you. You're the best person that I have met, you're beautiful,smart,caring and even a little accepting, knowing I don't tell you shit. I promise one day, you will know the truth, just, not today." I say and look up at her and her eyes are closer and she is breathing a little too quickly.

"Abigail?" I ask a little worried and she then opens her eyes and what she says next, hurts.

"I understand you have a past, as do I but maybe for the right girl you would tell her all your secrets, even what you do for a living or who you are. You're really sexy, smart and even caring but you're also scary and tend to have anger issues and I'm afraid, afraid to commit to someone who hides secrets. I'm afraid I would get physically and mentally hurt, Jake. I'm sorry, but I have to decline your offer as your girlfriend." She says and my heart drops and I know, deep down that she is correct but I'm to selfish to leave her, I need her to be mine.

She is mine.