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.

stood

her decision to get referred to DracoLux she wasn't running anymore. Demi wasn't going to live as a victim, not when she could

could I say? I pulled her closer and murmured, "We're going to the hospital.

car, then slid into the driver's seat, ready to peel out of there. But something caught my

trembled on the

glanced at Demi slumped in the passenger seat, her eyes closed, her body limp like

Monsters.

women. But this? This was worse than any nightmare I'd let

Lena and sped to the

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Lena and her team were already waiting. The second I hit

in the cold hallway outside the

passed. Each one felt like

out. She looked exhausted,

expression, sent

she?" I asked,

didn't answer right away. Instead, she nodded at a nurse behind her. The nurse stepped forward with a tray full of... things. Bloody, mangled

from her body," Lena said, her voice tight. "From 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 cheekbone. And..." Lena hesitated, her voice dropping, "Her left breast part of it