"David!" I called as I rushed after him, but it didn’t look like he was going to listen to me at all.
I managed to get him in time, and I held on to his hand. "David, don’t. Come with me!" I told him as I made to drag him back to the room, but he pushed my hands off as he stared at me.
"I won’t. That man dared to raise his hand to you, Ella. Take a look at yourself, for crying out loud. Look at your face and your neck; it’s swollen because of him, and you want me to let him be? I won’t." He said, and even though it warmed my heart that at least David was still crazy over me and still cared, I couldn’t let everything that I had worked so hard to build go down the drain because of this.
"David, calm down. Listen to me; don’t do this. I beg of you. I…" Before I could complete my statement,
