Not My Heart to Break by W. Winters

Author:W. Winters [Winters, W]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Willow Winters Publishing LLC

Laura

The blood is so dark. Dark blood is never good. “Seth,” my weak voice utters his name as tears fall down my cheeks. “Put pressure on it at least. Gauze, let me…” My hands shake and I try to remember everything you should do for a gunshot. I don’t have anything here to help him. I need supplies. “You need to go to the hospital!”

It’s surreal.

Holding his gun, still facing the dead men on the floor.

“We’ve got to get out of here.” Even as he turns away from me, I stare at the blood seeping into his shirt. It grows slowly, pooling out and then sticking to his side.

He doesn’t mention the pain as he opens the window in the living room. The way his face scrunches though and the way he’s breathing make it more than obvious to me.

“Seth,” I whimper and cover my mouth with both hands. Through the gaze of tears, I see the wreckage. The bodies lying dead, men who came to kill me.

Men Seth killed to save me. We shouldn’t be running, he should be getting help.

“Out here, Babygirl,” he commands as the knock at the door gets louder.

“Laura Roth,” a voice calls out. “It’s the police! Open up!”

My feet are cemented where I stand.

“Someone called them?” I blurt out as my head spins. They’re here too fast. It all happened so fast; why are they here already?

“Laura.” The urgency is clear in Seth’s voice as he closes the distance between us and grabs my arm. “We have to get out of here.”

It all snaps into place when he looks at me like that. The same way he used to look at me back then. Like he was put on this earth to save me. The desperation swirls in his eyes and it breaks me down to the only piece of me I truly know.

The piece that’s desperate to save my broken hero. So damaged by a life he chose not to run from.

“You first,” I whisper, shaking my head. “And you see someone,” I tell him, already deciding it won’t be me. It can’t be.

It’s pitch black outside, and a gust of harsh wind throws the curtains to the side as the policeman roars, “We’re coming in!”

“Go, quick,” I say as I usher him to the window. My hand brushes against his side, against the blood. Seth doesn’t react, but his jaw’s clenched tight. “Let me help you,” I beg him as he climbs out of the window and onto the metal fire escape stairs that lead down the side of the old brick building.

He’s quick to climb out into the dark night.

The police are coming and I’ll be damned if I let Seth take the fall. He still has both hands on the windowsill. The gun sitting on the sill cements my decision.

“Come on, Babygirl.” His tone is gentle as he waits for me to climb out too and to run. “I’ve got you.”

I can already hear my defense. They broke in here, they threatened me.

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