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.

just stood

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

her closer and murmured, "We're going to the hospital.

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

trembled on

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

Monsters.

to women. But this? This

the hospital like my

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

like that, I was back in the cold hallway outside the ER,

one felt like

door flicked off, and Lena walked out. She looked exhausted, but

silence, combined with her expression, sent an icy chill spreading through my

asked, my voice barely above a

nodded at a nurse behind her. The nurse stepped forward with

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