The man who took his sunshine away.
He was across the yard in seconds, lunging for Levi, knocking him to the ground. His fist only connected twice with Levi’s face before he was pulled off by officers. His knuckles were on fire, his heart was breaking, and he still couldn’t breathe, but he didn’t care, he had to get to Levi. Pulling away, he got to Levi again, this time only getting in one punch before they pulled him. An officer flipped Tate over, his mouth filling with cold grass as he was handcuffed with his hands behind his back.
“What the fuck are you doing! That fucker beat the shit out of his girlfriend; he is not in his right mind!” Lucas yelled. Tate heard him as they picked him up and took him to a cop car. He didn’t struggle. He didn’t resist. He just went. What else could he do?
He had just lost the one person he had left.
Fallon couldn’t breathe.
Running full speed through the hospital to the E.R., she felt like her lungs were about to burst from her chest. Her nausea was in full force but she couldn’t deal with that right now. She couldn’t deal with anything, she could only run. She heard her mother and father behind her, running and trying to keep up, but she couldn’t wait.
Audrey was hurt and she had to get to her. Now.
She knew it! She knew as soon as Lucas called telling her about what Levi had done, the motherfucker was going to mess with her baby sister. She just didn’t know that he would hurt her like this. Didn’t know he would go to this extreme. How could he? Who could hurt someone so sweet and so beautiful? Tears burned her eyes as she ran, until she finally saw the sign for the E.R. Pushing the door open, she ran to the front desk.
“My sister was taken here. I have to see her or the doctor who is caring for her. Please. Her name is Audrey Jane Parker. Please.”
The receptionist looked startled, but she nodded, typed quickly on her keyboard, then looked up at Fallon, “She was brought in thirty-three minutes ago. There is no other information available. Let me call back and see if they can give me anything.”
Fallon nodded, her heart pounding as her parents came up behind her. “Do they know anything?” William asked, breathing heavily.
“No, she is calling back now,” Fallon answered as she pulled out her phone. She hit Lucas’s icon and it rang until he answered.
“Baby, I can’t talk right now,” he said.
“Was she breathing?”
“Yes, they resuscitated her, but she was still unconscious when they put her in the back of the ambulance. I am on my way to the police station to get Tate. Have you seen or heard anything?”
“No, I just got here. I had to drop Aiden off at Susie’s and then meet my parents before coming up here.”
“Okay, call me when you know something.”
“Okay, love you.”
“Love you, baby girl; everything is going to be fine.”
“I hope you’re right,” Fallon said just as the receptionist hung up her phone.
“She is under the care of Dr. Aquino,” the woman said. “He is finishing up and then he will be out to speak with you.”
“Is she okay?” William asked the nurse, his hand clutching Fallon’s. She looked down at it and then back up at him. He was beyond himself with worry. They all were.
“I can’t give you that information, sir,” the nurse said, “but Dr. Aquino will be right out.”
Fallon took her parents over to a set of chairs. Without thinking, she jumped up, poured coffee and brought the two cups back to them.
“Fallon, baby, sit down,” Nora implored, reaching out for her, but she resisted by moving away.