1. My choice

Rowan

I can’t explain the fear I felt when I saw the bastard pointing a gun at her head. She was shaking,

and tears were falling down her face. I heard as she pleaded with him to spare her, but I knew he

wouldn’t.

When she closed her eyes. As if accepting her fate. It nearly brought me to my fucking knees. If it

wasn’t for the fact that I knew she was tired, I would have spared the man just so I could give him

my own personal version of torture.

“She needs a doctor, Rowan” she says in a small voice as I kneel down before her.

I had already texted Gabe. The ambulance would be here in minutes. It’s not that I didn’t care for

Emma; I did. I just cared for Ava more. (2)

I take her face gently into my hands. Her cheek was swollen, and so was her eye. It had already bruised, and her lip was split.

My face hardened at the thought of someone laying their hands on her.

“Who hit you? Was it Ronny” I ask through clenched teeth.

She winces when I run my hand down her bruised cheek. Fuck! Her pain made my heart constrict.

I wanted nothing more than to kill the bastard who hurt her.

“It doesn’t matter… We need to get Emma to a hospital” she says as she begins to stand up.

I push her down gently and continue to inspect her. Totally ignoring what she said. Her wrists were bleeding, and her ankles were swollen and bruised.

The more I took in her wounds, the angrier I got. She shouldn’t have to go through this. Especially not when she was fucking pregnant.

“Rowan, are you not listening to me” Her tone is exasperated, and I know if it weren’t for the fact that she was tired and hurt, she would have thrown a few choice words at me.

“I’m listening, and the ambulance will be here.” I answer. “Now tell me who hurt you.”

She lets out a deep long breath. Sagging in relief against the car

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It was one of Ronny’s men. He hit me when I talked back at him” she tells me tiredly.

“Give me a facial description”

I was going to find the bastard. No one. I mean, no one gets away with hurting Ava. He was going

to regret the day he was fucking born.

It doesn’t matter. When I escaped, he found us first. I kneed him in the balls, then shot both his

thighs

I can’t help the small smile that forms on my lips. I liked this side of Ava. Loved that she was no

longer willing to take crap from anyone.

Before I could ask why she thought escaping was a good idea, we heard the sirens, shouts, and

shots. Gabe, Travis, and the paramedic reach us moments later.

from Ava’s lap before placing her on

one of them

Ava hesitate a little before

we were trying to escape. I tried to stop the bleeding as best as I

and finally lost–consciousness.” Her

to be alright?” she asked, her voice

the things I’ve come to love about her. Emma has been nothing but horrible

but that d

her from worrying about her. She was

me this

pulse is a bit weak, but she’ll

her away.

you okay, Ava?” Travis asks her.

as she struggles to get up. “Go,

she needs

bending down to kiss her cheeks. I

she doesn’t push him away. Otherwise, her reception would

and I give Gabe the signal

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question after watching her struggle to get

she answers, looking at me tiredly.

bend dow, and pick her up. Hugging her close to

help standing up, not being carried” Her argument lacks her normal fire backing it up.

Like everything in the fucking universe was aligning itself. If

hug her or kiss her. I always held a part of myself hidden from her. So it makes me wonder

my soul?

to my car

fucking see that I was carrying

of the Reapers,

news.

want to pound someone. The fact that he keeps evading us

long as he was still out there, none of those I care about would be

find him” I

drop Ava in the front

the hospital.

are we

Make sure you and the baby

us long to get to the hospital. By the time

my car before waking her up. I didn’t mind carrying her, but

to answer

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are here” I say when she opens her beautiful

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she can jump down. I take her into my arms and carry her in. As soon

you immediately we have news” they assure me when

slowly put her down

tells me before they wheel

I don’t say a lot. Just demand that they come

the hospital.

I got the call from Ronny, I asked them to

Travis and Kate.

I

“Not yet” Travis answers.

doing? Where is

in for checkup just to

silence after that. Being here reminds me of everything that happened after James died. It reminded me of how I was overcome with emotion after seeing

nine years.

to the time when she meant the world to me. I had been so lost

here also reminded me of when Ava got shot. She had been standing right next to me, yet I had dived for Emma instead. Ava became different after that event. It’s like the Ava we knew had died and a new one had been born. I’ll never forget

the same thing if the roles had been reversed. I bet that was her wake–up call. It took seeing me rush to save Emma for her to see

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