Crazy•E.D

Twenty-nine

Maya POV

I laid in my old bed with my eyes closed searching for sleep. I just needed to not think for one second, all I want to do is sleep; get away from all of this. Get away from the fact that I most likely killed Evelyn and her baby.

I felt the bed dip beside me making me tense up.

Is it Rico? Has he come to finish what he started? I have to protect myself.

I opened my eyes grabbing the persons neck harshly putting all my weight on him so we fell to the floor.

"Maya, maya it's me! Ethan!" Ethan's voice whispered. I looked down at his face, the moon was shinning bright enough for us to see each other.

Looking at Ethan's face made it all seem real for me. The wall that I put up to keep my emotions at bay had come crashing down. My mother's dead..... I killed countless people!

I began sobbing before Ethan wrapped his arms around me, hugging me tightly.

"Shh, it's okay. I got you, I got you" Ethan cooed in my ear as he stroked my hair. "It's all gonna be fine. We're going to take the house back and make him suffer and it'll be all over" he cupped my cheeks wiping some tears away with his thumbs.

"No, Ethan." I sniffled. "Even when he's dead it won't be over! Because my mom will never come back Emily will never come back and all the terrible, terrible things he made me do and all the people he made me kill will haunt me forever" I choked on a sob before he hugged me again.

"Maya I know what you're going through" I pulled away a little so I could look at his face. He did know what I was going through, he had endured more than I have so I need to look to him for guidance. "I know it seems tough right now, you feel like the world can't move on. You feel this hole in side of you that she left that can never be replaced by anyone or anything. But the world does go, your mothers still with you. And I know that she wouldn't want you to sit here and mope around, she'd want you to go out there and kick those guys asses for fucking up her carpets." I giggled, my mom always got mad when we tracked mud into the house, and got it all over her precious carpet. "As for the people you killed. It'll get easier over time" I looked down in shame.

He placed two fingers on my chin making me look up at him. Without thinking twice, I leaned over pressing a soft kiss on his lips. He gave me a confused look.

"I'm so sorry for being so stupid and blind. You've always been there for me, I shouldn't of kept pursuing Grayson. I should've opened my eyes and seen the amazing man in front of me" I caressed his cheek giving him a small smile.

He rested his forehead against mine sighing. "God, I love you so much" fuck, I can't say it back; because saying it back would be lying to him. It's not that I don't want to be with him, because I do very, very much; I just don't love him just yet.

I kissed him softly placing myself on his lap as he wrapped his arms around my waist.

The door knob jiggled making us jump. Ethan quickly rolled under the bed as I laid on top of the bed as naturally as possible.

I let out a sigh of relief when I saw that it was lily that entered and not one of Rico's goons.

"Are you okay?" I got up holding my arms out for her. She shook her head no as silent tears fell.

"They have Emma and I haven't seen Jose" she sobbed into my shoulder. I was
freaking out on the inside, where the hell is my brother? But on the outside I was completely calm for Lily's sake.

"Jose and Emma are safe" Ethan's voice made her jump. She gave me a confused look before walking over to Ethan giving him a quick hug.

"Where are they?" She asked quickly.

"During the shoot out, Jose was shot. But I dragged him inside along with Emma, they're in the bunker below the house with Gloria they're safe" Ethan gave her a sympathetic look. I sighed in relief, I can't lose my brother. Or anyone else for that matter. My heart can't take another loss.

Evelyn POV

My feet were aching and I was ready to give up. We've been walking for hours and all I've seen are trees, dirt, bushes, and more trees.

"Not to sound like an annoying child, but are we there yet?" I whined.

Henry chuckled. "Want to take a break?"

"Oh, yes please" I sighed sitting on a fallen tree trunk. Henry sat next to me sipping his water before handing me the bottle. I watched as Avery took out her map studying it carefully before looking at her compass.

"We're just 2 miles away" she smiled.

"Two miles!? Where the hell are we?" I groaned making them chuckle. I was exhausted all I wanted to do was crawl into bed with my husband and sleep safely in his arms.

I heard a twig snap a few feet away making me jump.

"What was that?" I asked in fear.

"Shhh!" Henry commanded as he got up grabbing his axe. Avery took an arrow from her bag loading her bow. I took out my hunting knife to protect myself. We stood in a circle so we were able to have each others backs. We heard a couple more twigs snap before a fucking bear jumped out from the shrubbery.

"Holy shit!" I screamed before ducking so Avery could shoot it with an arrow.

This bear was so big that it took the arrow and still kept come at us.

"Run!" Henry shouted, I grabbed his bag before making a run for it. We ran quickly jumping over tree roots and shrubs. Of course my foot got caught in something making me fall. I hit my head on a rock making pain shoot through my head. I looked up seeing a big brown blurry figure before everything went black.