Chapter 52

"Stop it, you crazy woman!" Jess whimpered, trying to protect herself from the slaps that turned into punches wherever I could reach.

"I'm going to kill you!" I shouted, squeezing her neck as I began to hear the desperate buzz around me. "You helped that bastard kill him, you took him away from me..."

My eyes had already been watering since I started punching her, but the memories soon made me hate her again and I didn't spare the only strength I had to tighten my hands even more around her thin neck.

"Sarah..." She coughed chokingly.

"You took the love of my life, Jess, and now I'm going to take yours."

I finally smiled, wanting to see her eyes roll back behind her eyelids.

"Sarah!" I heard, but I was too immersed in that terrible sensation that was overwhelming me. "Sarah!" The voice boomed and I ignored it as Jess collapsed while not even her snake friends moved to help her.

But before she breathed her last, my body was ripped from her, and I struggled nervously, wanting to finish what I had started but unable to.

"Let me go! Hell!" I screamed, feeling my back hit the wall. "I'm going to kill that bastard!"

I could only stare at Jess on the floor, coughing like an abandoned dog.

"Am I the love of your life?" I was breathing hard, trapped against the wall and still trying to break free from the strong arms that held me. "Did you say I was the love of your life, Sarah?" 

I blinked losing focus of Jess to see a deep gray haze, I trembled losing my breath, maybe even part of my consciousness.

"You..." I moaned, unable to hold back the tears, watching his slightly pale face smile from the corner of his lips. "David..."

"Cruel little girl, you're also the love of my life."

"Son of a bitch!" I shouted as David dragged me out of the crowd and into his car. "You bastard!"

He laughed, throwing me into the passenger seat as the crowd looked on at the bloody hysterical scene I was making, but I didn't care, I wanted to smash his face in a lot more than I wanted to do to Jess. David turned the car around and closed the door with a bloody grin on his face.

"You bastard! How can you do this to me!" I screamed, hitting any part of him I could reach, I was desperate and my chest was screaming with bloody surprise and happiness at the sight of those bright, cloudy eyes. "Where were you? You left me alone, you bastard!"

David didn't answer but looked at me sideways with the same smile on his face. I wanted to kill him, to punch him until his glasses were part of his damn handsome face...

"David!" I shouted and he pulled into the garage of his apartment. "What the fuck do you think you're doing?" 

"Taking what's mine." He said as he parked.

I refused to get out of the car, my emotions running high as he opened the door and pulled me out. I was thrown over his shoulder and carried into that damn elevator.

"Let me go, you son of a bitch! I'll break your face!" I screamed inside the elevator, but he did nothing but receive my slaps and punches on his back.

He continued on his way to the apartment and only put me down after closing the door and locking it from the inside.

"Why weren't you there? Why weren't you with me?" I cried, pounding on his chest, and David just started pushing me slowly against his sofa, I changed direction and got out of the way he wanted to keep. I wasn't going to let him just dumb down my feelings for whatever it was, he'd let me think I was dead! "David!"

He locked his jaw and pushed me quickly against the wall, pinning my arms and forcing my body against mine.

"You bastard!" I whimpered, missing that scent that always left me intoxicated, lost while he was around. "Bastard..."

"Speak again..." He asked quietly, looking at me with expectation in his cloudy eyes. "Tell me directly what you shouted at Jess in the middle of the street."

I closed my face, my skin burning violently making my cheeks redder than the dried blood on the bruises scattered there.

"Go to hell." I squealed, he didn't deserve to hear that, I wasn't going to tell him how much I'd discovered I loved him and that now my life didn't make sense without him.

He smiled with the corner of his lips and I cursed him to the tenth generation.

"Come on, darling..." David muttered, taking off his glasses and throwing them on the table. "Say again that I'm the love of your life, say..." I held back a moan as he pulled my hair back, making my neck show itself to him, giving himself away without my having allowed it.

"Fuck you..." I gasped, feeling his fingers sink into the skin around my waist, reminding me how much I missed him.

"Cruel little girl," David said smiling as he began to attack my neck with need, and hell, I was giving in. "Am I going to have to rip this off you?" 

I disentangled myself from his eager hands and slapped his face, he raised an eyebrow at me as the mark on my hand began to emerge in a bright, hot red. 

"Don't you ever dare leave me alone again!" I shouted, feeling the tears welling up in my eyes again. He sighed, sinking both hands into my hair and caressing my face, sliding the tip of his nose over mine.

"Sarah..." He murmured my name with his eyes closed and it took me more strength than I had imagined to stand up with the force that hit me. "How many more times do I have to prove that you're mine and that I'd never let you get away from me? I love you, you cruel little girl."

I collapsed like an avalanche, David had to hold me up so my knees wouldn't hit the floor. Then he finally kissed me, ripping my breath, my insecurities, and the pain from my body. Longing hit me like a wave and I threw myself into his arms, feeling his soft, warm tongue explore my mouth with more longing than I seemed to feel.

I let his hands run over all the bruises without really caring about the pain, I would have them all over again just to see him again.

"The last time I saw you you were unconscious on the bed at Ben's house, I kept an eye on you to make sure you were okay, Sarah. I didn't disappear to hurt you, I needed to make Mike pay for every one of those marks he left on you."

I sobbed feeling his fingers caress the sore bite under my breast, David pulled the t-shirt from my body freeing my body from the heavy feeling it left.

"I don't care about him, I just wish you were there..."

David kissed my cheek and looked slowly at my body, the cuts and bites still looking bloody. He sighed and pulled me up slowly, I didn't object, I just wanted him not to leave me alone.

I was placed on the lid of the toilet and slowly he took off my shoes, then helped me take off my pants, which in my rage I put over the still-open wounds.

"My little girl..." David sighed and pulled his clothes off his body before holding out his hand to me. "Come here, I'll look after you, then I'll answer whatever you want."

I went, even if longing had given me no choice I would have gone, he smiled at me and hugged me under the hot water.

"I should have surrounded you more and stopped him getting close, I'm sorry I failed you." David took me from zero to a hundred and gave me everything I'd never had in just a few months, he gave me the will to live and to have someone to share it with.

I sobbed again and slowly he let go of me to apply soap to the bruises, I shuddered at the contact and slowly the blood began to leave my body.