Wild and Wicked

Chapter Sixteen: Jackson’s Protective Side

I can’t stop thinking about what Bryce and Cara told me. I don’t know about her past but I am starting to wonder if it’s as dark as mine.

Flashback 10 years ago:

Sami girl, guess what?? I got drafted to The Vancouver Panthers, can you believe it, I asked her.

She was off that night, she smiled but it didn’t reach her eyes. Something was off, so I asked her babe what’s wrong? She answers with nothing hunny, I am just going to miss you is all then kissed me. My gut was telling me something was off but I ignored it. Let’s go out and celebrate I say. Sami agrees and we are off.

After a few hours we decided to head back to my place, but before we do she asks if we can stop at her moms place to get some clothes and without a second thought we drive to her place and she gets out, but she turned to face me and says if I am not out in 20 minutes, call the police and do not come in! All I could say was alright babe, you’ll be out in 10. She nodded and smiled gently and left.

15 minutes go by and there is no sign of her, something in my heart is telling me something is wrong. I get out of the car and walk to the front door, and notice through the front window that there is blood and all sorts of s**t knocked over, I panic and run back to the car and call 911. I tell them what I saw and my girlfriend’s words. The gentleman on the line tells me to wait on the line, but I don’t listen, I race back to the house and kick the door open and all I hear is silence.

My heart started to race and the guy on the line told me to stay put the cops were close. But again I didn’t listen and started to walk around, I land in the kitchen and that’s when I see the most gruesome scene, my girlfriend’s mother is naked and throat cut with Sami beside her, tied up and naked. I dropped to the ground and screamed and yelled at the 911 operator to tell the police to hurry up. I put my phone down and started CPR but nothing was working and then to my surprise 2 paramedics show up with 4 police officers and start looking at the scene. The paramedics took over what I was doing and rushed her out the door and I asked if I could come and they agreed. Sami’s pulse is low but there, we get to the hospital and they rush her into surgery.

For what seemed like forever, a doctor came out looking defeated. He sat down and told me she didn’t make it! I looked at him in a daze and asked what happened to her. The doctor says son, I don’t even know how to put this but she was r***d vaginally and anally and the brutality of the situation is what caused her to die, she bled to death, I am sorry. He gets up and walks away, I just sat there in shock and all I could do was feel my heart break into a million pieces. I should have went with her, I should have protected her.

Not long after the police show up and ask me hundreds of questions and I answer them honestly, and once they are done they tell me that the mother got the better end of the stick, she didn’t suffer and that they are going to find who did this. If the cops didn’t find him I would and kill him.

Present

Every time I get hit with this flashback it kills me cause they never found the son of a b***h. They had a suspect but the fucker had an alibi. Not long after the police stopped chasing him, the piece of s**t did it again but didn’t leave the girl dead, but no one knew who it was because she was under 18. I remember going to the hearing and I was so happy to hear he was getting 10-20 years in prison.

Now with all this weird s**t going on with Cara, I had this urge to protector her and make my amends for not helping Sami all those years ago. I will find who killed her and I will find who is harassing Cara.

My job was to protect and that is exactly what I’ll do. I couldn’t do it for Sami but I swear to god I will do it for Cara.

All of a sudden my phone rings and it’s Jeff. Hey dude what’s up? When did you see my sister he asks, I reply umm I left her office about an hour ago. Why what’s up? Jeff says dude she is on the way to the hospital, someone tried to kill her by burning her apartment complex down. I reply what in the f**k man, who would do something like that? Jeff says, I might have a few ideas but I’m not getting into it. Bryce said that you had some good ideas to protect her, wanna meet us at the hospital, so we can talk? I respond, yes man I’ll be there in 15 minutes.

Something in me snapped, there is no way an innocent woman like Cara is going to be hurt, there is something about her that drives me crazy. I am going to do anything in my power to keep her safe. I grab my keys and rush out the door. I make it to the hospital, and find Bryce outside waiting for me, we enter the hospital and find Cara’s room. When we go in my heart stops, seeing Cara asleep and hooked up to the monitors makes my inner wolf roar. I will protect her no matter what!

Jeff pulls me out of thought and we start to discuss everything that lead up to this point and Jeff turns quickly and sees Cara waking up, she looks confused and then she starts crying everything must of hit her like bricks. Jeff reassures her everything will be okay and that if she moves he can’t protect her, which he is right. Then he says the complex burnt down and she needed a place to stay and when I heard that I jumped on it. I burst out she can stay with me, I have the state of art security systems in my place and the building is extremely secure plus I have 4 bedrooms and an office.

Cara looked at me shell shocked, Jeff and Bryce are looking at me with a s**t eating grin. What did I do I wonder!

Oh s**t, I just told her and Bryce they can move in, what did I just sign up for?