Love's Redemption (Chris and Maddie)

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

running anymore. Demi wasn't going to live as a victim, not when she could expose the monsters behind it all. Just like

I pulled her closer and murmured,

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

hand trembled

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

Monsters.

this? This was worse than any nightmare I'd

sped to the

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second I hit the brakes, they

was back in

one felt like

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

speak. The silence, combined with her expression, sent an icy chill

she?" I asked, my voice barely above

Instead, she nodded at a nurse behind her. The nurse stepped forward with

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.