Finding Forever: Second Chance Billionaire Romance (Finding Love Book 2) by J. L. Perry

Author:J. L. Perry [Perry, J. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-14T18:30:00+00:00

From Jacinta’s call I knew things weren’t good, but I’m not expecting the carnage I find when I enter the house. Furniture is upended, with large holes in the gyprock, smears of blood on the wall, and multiple broken items littering the floor. I protectively place my hand over my stomach as I navigate the ruins.

Shards of glass crunch under my feet as I cross the room. Not thinking straight, I didn’t even knock. I just let myself in.

“Jacinta?”

“In here, Miss Brooke.”

I round the corner and follow the droplets of blood, and the sounds of her whimpers down the hall. When I enter the small kitchen, I find them. Poor Grace is lying unmoving on the floor near the back door as her daughter rocks back and forth beside her. Unlike the front room, this one is pretty much intact, apart from a few toppled chairs. It looks like she was trying to flee her attacker when he delivered his final blow.

As soon as Jacinta sees me, she leaps to her feet and wraps her arms around my waist. “Please save her … I don’t want her to die.”

My hand runs soothingly down her back as my eyes assess her mother. She’s lying on her side, but I can see the rise and fall of her chest from here, so I know she’s still alive. Thank God for that. There’s a pool of blood beside her head.

I squat down in front of Jacinta. “I’m going to have to call an ambulance, sweetie. Your mum needs to see a doctor. Can you get me a clean towel so we can try to stem some of the bleeding?”

She nods once before running from the room. I can only imagine the horrors this poor child has witnessed in her lifetime.

I kneel beside Grace and lift her wrist to check her pulse. Tears cloud my vision as my eyes move over her face. She is so battered and bruised that she’s unrecognisable.

Pulling out my phone, my hands are shaking as I dial triple zero. As I talk with the dispatcher, Jacinta comes running back into the kitchen, clutching a towel to her chest.

“How long has your mum been unconscious?” I ask.

“I don’t know … a while. My dad came home from work early and started screaming at her the moment he walked in the door. My mum makes me lock myself in my room when he gets like this … I have to stay there until she comes and gets me when it’s safe. Everything went quiet, and then I heard the front door slam. I knew he’d left, but I waited and waited, and my mum never came. I finally found the courage to leave my room, and that’s when I found her. Is she going to die?”

Fat tears roll down her cheeks as she explains, and it breaks my heart. “Help is on its way,” I tell her, reaching out to stroke her blonde hair. “She’s going to be okay.” I have no clue if that’s even true, but I feel compelled to comfort this poor child.

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