CHAPTER 25
ELIZABETH
I went through the motions of giving the police my report and being escorted to the hospital for a r**e kit with very little connection to the events happening around me. I was locked inside of myself, in a place where dreams and hopes and love grew. I hid myself in that pocket of my mind, purposely avoiding as much of reality as I could.
Lucas was here.
His presence soothed me. He was angry when he found out about Bryce. Furious. I couldn’t help but note the difference in his reaction compared to Natalia’s. Lucas knew what kind of girl Natalia was. He knew of her reputation. A lesser man would have written her complaints off, declared that she’d ‘asked for it’.
But not Lucas.
I loved him so much. I might have told him too. If not for all this. It would take me a
