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

clicked. Her fear of returning, 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 expose the monsters behind it

I say? I pulled her closer and murmured, "We're going to

car, then slid into the driver's seat, ready to peel

trembled on

seat, her eyes closed, her body limp like

Monsters.

rumors-what those men did to women. But this? This was worse than any nightmare

Lena and sped to the hospital like my

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her team were already waiting. The second I hit the brakes, they got Demi

back in the

one felt like a

above the door flicked off, and Lena walked out. She looked exhausted, but there was something else-something dark

combined with her expression, sent an icy

she?" I asked, my voice barely

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

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