Thunderstorm - ENGLISH VERSION || Riverdale Fanfiction

Chapter 6

I grabbed one of Toby's animals books and handed it to him.
It would have kept him busy for at least ten minutes and I wanted to have a cup of tea.

Someone knocked at the door but I didn't pay too much attention, knowing that Rosa, our housekeeper, would go to open it.
I was getting up from the carpet where the child's toys were littered when male voices caught my attention.

Rosa's scream came up to me and the sound of broken glass made me whiten.

Who the hell was it?

I grabbed Hudson in a thousandth of a second and ran into Nick's office.

I felt the steps behind me, heavy and direct in our direction.

With my heart beating like crazy, I hid my son under his father's desk and told him to stay still.
I opened the drawer at the bottom of the desk and pulled out a gun.
A bullet escaped my hand and I took it back swiftly cursing in a low voice.
I loaded the weapon the moment the studio door was knocked down.

The man who entered the room was tall and wore dark clothes.
He had a gun too.
He started to raise his arm but my shot was already aimed at his chest.

He dropped the weapon and put his hands to his body, where a scarlet stain was spreading out over the dark shirt.
He collapsed to the ground and with a convulsive gurgling lost consciousness in a pool of blood.

My knees gave in and I found myself on all fours on the floor.

I had ... I had ... oh my god.

A desperate cry spread in the static and heavy air.

I dragged myself to the desk crawling and, completely shocked, pulled Toby to my chest.

He sobbed in fear and trembled like a leaf.
I nibbled under the wooden table, holding it tightly.

《Everything's alright. We're fine. Everything's alright.》

I kept repeating those words for what seemed hours.

Nick found us under the desk an hour later.

Rosa had fainted when they pushed her against the entry table, and when she recovered she called Nicholas who had rushed home immediately.

Toby had fallen asleep in my arms, crying and when Nick started to pick him up I realized how stuck I was.

Aching and sore, I let the baby go.

Nick came back a minute later and took my wrists to pull me up.

I could not move.

My mouth continued to open without giving out a single sound.

Nicky leaned his palms on my cheeks and kissed away the tears that had begun to fall on my skin.

《Shhh, everything's fine. Everything's alright. You did the right thing.》

Continuing to murmur reassuring words, he led me into the bathroom and turned on the water in the bathtub.

He locked the door and began to undress me gently, using all the kindness possible.

When he raised my arm to take off the pearls bracelet I wore on my wrist, I realized that I had dried blood on my hands.

I looked down.
It had dripped down my arms, the three-quarters sleeves of my white dress were now red.
Even the hem of the dress was stained.
When I had fallen on my knees, I had landed in the pool of blood without even realizing it.