I kept telling myself that there were hundreds of people in the building that could be involved the whole time I ran behind him to where he was parked. I continued telling myself it throughout the whole drive there, too, but something told me I already knew who it was.
My suspicions were confirmed when we ran through the ER over to the area where the first three beds were where the nurses were pointing us to, and I skidded to a stop when I saw three security guards holding down a bear of a man, who was threatening them at the top of his lungs.
“Oh, fuck,” Logan breathed beside me, staring in horror at two women who were standing holding each other in the corner of the room. The first one, a blonde, looked like she’d had the shit beaten out of her and had tears running down her face, the other one…
And that’s when I realized why he’d reacted the way he had, as I saw the swelling and redness on Rose’s cheek, and the way her eye was starting to shut with it.
Not even thinking about what I was doing, I launched myself at the heap of bodies on the floor, the only thoughts in my mind revolving around where I could hit the asshole to cause him the most pain. Logan was two steps ahead of me, though, because he caught me around the waist and gave me a hard pinch when I went to push him away from me.
“She’s scared enough as it is, man,” he hissed, nodding over at Rose who hadn’t taken her eyes off the big man like she was afraid he was going to get free. “You do that, you’ll scare her even more.”
Just then, the big fucker did break free, shaking off one of the guards like he was a fly, meaning that both of us had to jump on top of him, anyway. This also meant that I got to get in some hits as we cuffed his hands behind him and his feet together, including an ‘accidental’ toe to the junk when he rolled to his side as I was getting to my feet. Not one of us would ever admit to it not being accidental, though, because no normal man would ever be ok with what he’d done to the two women. And one of the women he’d hit was one of the nicest women to ever walk the earth. Sure, she was a pain in the ass, but she was my pain in the ass.
RoseFinishing writing the last word on the form in his hand, DB looked up at where I was sitting with an icepack on my face. It had been just over three hours since I’d been punched in the face by the gargantuan man, aka Chad Vernon the asshole, and both Tana and I had been assessed and our injuries confirmed. She had a fractured wrist, two broken ribs, her cheekbone was fractured, and she was bruised all over, but the good news was that there was no internal bleeding. I had a badly bruised and swollen cheek, and the beginning of a beautiful black eye, but I’d got away relatively unscathed given the size of the guy.
“The security guards have all completed writing out their statements, but they’re coming in tomorrow to go over a few things,” he told us, leaning back and pinching the bridge of his nose. “I’d be grateful if you could do the same thing, Rose, and one of us will come and speak to you here,” he said, directing this last bit at Tana, who was nervously chewing the thumbnail on the hand that wasn’t in a cast.
I felt the legs underneath me shift, at the same time that the arm around my waist tightened. “Am I good to take Rose home and finish up with you tomorrow?” Raoul asked, making it clear he would be doing just that, regardless.
After they’d cuffed Chad, the three security guards had remained on his back until DB turned up to help Logan transport him down to where they took men who obviously ate steroids like Skittles. In my mind, the bars were made of a special blend of Kryptonite and steel, the walls were made of titanium, and they fed them batteries for breakfast there. Maybe it was even a hole dug thirty feet into the ground, that had titanium reinforced walls, and kryptonite steel bars over the top of it? It couldn’t be where they put the average law breaker, though, no fucking way.
Raoul had held me, and I’d held Tana throughout the whole removal of gigantor, feeling her shaking the whole time. Once he was gone, we’d both gone off for X-rays, as well as a CT scan for her, before being moved into this room where Raoul pulled me onto his lap, and hadn’t let me up since.