I heard Elgin’s horrified voice, but the expression on his face was much worse.
“Scarlett! Oh no, Scarlett! Not already!”
He had thrown himself beside me and hardly dared to touch my aching body.
My eyes saw everything, my ears heard everything, but I was unable to answer him, to move. I could only blink to express all the anguish I was feeling.
“Rucker!” he screamed like the damned.
Once, twice, but Rucker didn’t come.
Elgin’s features twisted as he watched me with horror. I wondered what he was seeing, what I could look like that made him so scared. Elgin didn’t seem to believe what his eyes were showing him. At the same time, I heard a door slam, footsteps rushing through the house, and a female voice cry out:
“By all the saints! But what happened here! Scarlett!”
Bonnie jumped
