Bye-Bye Jerk, Hello Mr. Right by Rosie Steppe

Chapter 718

"Demi, Demi..."

I bolted out of the car and grabbed her, calling her name in panic.

No response. I tilted her face toward me, hoping for some sign of recognition, but when I saw her clearly, my breath hitched.

Her face was unrecognizable-swollen, bruised, her eyes barely open. There were gashes on her cheeks, and her lips? So busted they didn't even look human.

I didn't need a detailed story. I knew.

Hayden was rights I was too late.

"I'm calling the cops," I said, my voice shaky as fury and heartbreak churned inside me.

"No, don't..." Her hand weakly gripped my arm.

I froze, staring at her. She managed the smallest smile, but it was broken, jagged, like it hurt her more than it comforted me.

"Why?" My voice cracked.

"Because... I need evidence," she whispered, her tone faint but steady.

just stood

anymore. Demi wasn't going to live as a victim, not when she could expose

closer and murmured, "We're going

fight me. I got her in the car, then slid into the driver's seat, ready to peel out of there. But something

trembled

at Demi slumped in the passenger seat, her eyes closed,

Monsters.

those men did to women. But this? This was worse than any nightmare I'd let myself

sped to the hospital like my

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waiting. The second I hit the brakes, they got Demi

like that, I was back in the cold

one

and Lena walked out. She looked exhausted,

didn't speak. The silence, combined with her expression, sent an icy

how is she?" I asked, my voice

a nurse behind her. The nurse stepped forward with a tray full of... things. Bloody,

her lower body." My stomach turned as I stared at the tray, my mind refusing to process what I was seeing. "She has over a hundred wounds," Lena continued, her tone cold and sharp. "Her lower body is severely torn. Uterine rupture. Massive internal bleeding. A fractured