Pieces of Me by Pua Ramona (small books to read txt) 📕

have her again, with enough privacy to take my sweet fucking time with her. I drove back to my parent’s place and was fucking excited about my plan. No one will ever believe her over me. I mean, I own half of a law firm in California so I’m not fucking worried at all. I went to bed that night and dreamed about her with a smile on my face.

Chapter Fifty-Nine

Eli

“Are you okay?” Becca asks.

“I’ll be okay when I put the motherfucker that did this to her six feet under.” I say and I fucking meant it. It’s been two hours since we arrived at the hospital. I held her hands until we got here. I didn’t want to let her go, but they told me that I had to wait in the waiting area and someone will keep us updated. I want to be out looking for the piece of shit who did this to her. How could anyone beat her to the point where her face was unrecognizable? How could someone just leave her out there in this shitty ass weather to fucking bleed out? She could’ve fucking died. The medic couldn’t really tell me how bad she was, but he told me that it didn’t look good.

The image of her sitting there in a pool of her own blood makes me feel sick to my stomach. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to forget how broken she looked. It was hard for me to look at her, but I knew if I looked away and she saw, she wouldn’t be able to come back from that. I could still hear her screams, I could still smell her blood, and I could still feel her scars on my lips.

I wish I could say that I’m okay, but the truth is I’m not. My head is pretty fucked up and the only thought that keeps replaying in my head is that I need to find who did this to her and make him disappear. Prison is the least of my fucking worries. The fucking animal that left her bleeding out on the ground after beating her so brutally doesn’t deserve to exist in this world any longer. The pounding in my head is getting worse. I need to get out of here. I need to break something. But I can’t leave her.

“Becca if you didn’t find her when you did, I don’t think she’d be here” I said. “Thank you.”

Becca looks at me and cries, “If I would have left my parents’ house sooner, I could’ve done more. Eli, I didn’t know what to do. I saw your truck and thought it was weird that it was just parked there, so I went to make sure that you or Sina weren’t stuck. Then I saw her and I froze Eli, I fucking froze. I’m so sorry.”

I get up from my chair and clasp her hand in mine. I help her up from her chair and hold her close. I’m so fucking glad that she found Sina when she did, that I forget about my jaded past with Becca and vow internally that I’ll do anything to make sure that she has all the help she needs with her and Micah’s baby. I’m not saying that I’m going to raise him, of course not. But I’ll help with babysitting and stuff. Well Sina would probably do all the babysitting while I built her book shelves and filled them all with her favorite books. She’s going to be okay, right? She has to be okay.

“It’s not your fault Becca. If anything you saved her” I reassure her as she cries. I’m sure her hormones aren’t helping either. I kiss the top of her head and say, “You need to get home so you can change your wet clothes. I don’t want you to get sick Becca, you can’t afford to be with that little man growing in there.” She shakes her head no, but I cut her off. “No. You’re going to go home and get some rest and when I hear anything I promise I’ll call you.”

“Promise you’ll call me when you hear anything?” she asks.

I place my hand on her shoulder and say, “I promise.”

“I’ll drive you home Becca,” Lei offers.

Becca looks at Lei with a tired smile and says “Thanks Leila, that would be great.”

Leila grabs Becca by the hand and says “Thank you for staying with Sina.” She looks at Reese and says “Keep me posted Babe?”

Reese wraps his arms around her and says,“I will love” before kissing her goodbye.

“Don’t do anything stupid Eli, but if you do please be safe” Lei says. I don’t say anything because I’m not going to stand here and tell a lie. They all know I’m close to waging a war against the first person who gets in my way.

I kiss Lei on her forehead and say, “Be careful and don’t say anything yet to anyone.”

She nods her head and says, “We won’t.” Before they leave the waiting area, she hands me a little baggie and I swear my world is slowly fucking falling apart. I can’t look at it so Reese takes it from her. “Find who did this to her and make them fucking pay” she cries. She holds Becca’s hand and they both walk out without turning back.

“Luka and Daniel are outside waiting for Rita and Megan to get here. Luka wanted me to let you know that he made sure to tell them to not say anything, not even to their auntie and uncle”, Reese says.

I lean my elbows on my knees and run my hands through my hair.

“She was raped, man. He fucking raped her Reese. He raped her and left her there like she was trash.” My head feels like I’ve ran it through a fucking wall and my heart is pounding so hard that I can hear it beating outside of my chest. “I’m going to