Rose's POV

"Stop! Please stop!" I screamed my voiced consumed in pain.

"Not until you tell me! Little brat." The merciless voice replied. My eyes were clamped shut out of pain but the room was dark anyway, so I wouldn't have been able to see her. Yes her.

"What do you know about Megan Oaks' murder?" She yelled, her voice thick with rage.

"I don't know anything! I swear!"

"Lies." I felt a searing pain in my chest as if I were on fire and screamed. The psychotic woman had been playing this little game for hours, asking me what I knew and once I said nothing, she electrocuted me.

"I'm not lying and you will die in hell for this!" I felt the fire-like pain return in my chest.

"Oh but I'm already there my lovely. Now answer this question, where has her father run off to?" Great. Another question I can't answer.

"For the last time, I. Don't. Know." Once again, I felt the pain return.

"If you stopped playing stupid, then we might stop playing our little game. Hm? Does that sound nice love?"

That was the last I heard before I suddenly lost my battle with consciousness.

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Alex POV

I woke up in a sterile room with white walls, floors, and bed sheets. I knew where I was, a hospital. Then came the pain. Sharp, stabbing pain from my stomach. Becky, that fucking red-head had shot me. Suddenly I noticed that I wasn't the only one in the room.

"Meg?"

"Hello Mr I've-got-a-pregnant-girlfriend-but-will-still-cheat-on-her." Oh god. She knew.

"Listen I-"

"You can't explain. You couldn't if you tried. You are just the ladies' man, how could I have been so naïve to believe that you could change? You could never be a good father, even if I didn't know."

"If you don't care about me so much why have you been waiting by my bedside?"

"I want to know something. Were you or weren't you the bait for rose?"

"I was but listen, Claire is nothing to me. You are my whole world." I was surprised as a tear rolled down my cheek and landed on my bare chest.

"Nice try, but I'm not falling for that again." And with that, she left.

"Fucking hell." I looked up to the ceiling as if it alone could give me some guidance. "For the love of Christ please don't let this be the last time I see her, I love her. I was stupid, drunk and from memory probably high and I know that I should never have let it happen, but I did and there's nothing I can do to take it back other than apologise, and if she doesn't accept my apology then she will have to raise that child on her own. She has no parents to help her, only me." And I attempted to move from the half-sitting-half-lying position I was in but found that I was too weak to move.

"Mr Blackburn, you mustn't leave. We have removed the bullets but you will need a few weeks to heal." A nurse said as he tries to restrain me. I eventually gave up.

"Where is she going?" I asked, my voice thick with emotion and defeat.

"To where you were found, if I heard correctly."

"Then get her gorgeous ass back here so that I can warn her of something." And the nurse then ran out of the room, leaving me alone for the first time since I'd woken up.

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Meg's POV

I wanted to take him back, I wanted to but I couldn't. Not after what he'd done to me. Not after all the pain he'd caused. He just didn't deserve me anymore.

"I'm sorry about your boyfriend. He seemed like a nice guy." Said the girl who found him, Clio?

"He's not dead." I said bitterly.

"Oh, I only assumed because you looked so upset."

"That's a whole different story."

"Um sorry for the intrusion but would you like to tell?"

"He cheated. After everything, he cheated on me." This shocked her beyond belief. We then drove in silence until she pulled the van to a stop.

"Here we are." She mumbled.

"Thank you, for everything."

"Do you want me to help you look for the girl?"

"How- Lucas?"

"Yeah we were talking a bit in the waiting room."

"Good bye Clio. I doubt we'll meet again. Again, thanks for everything." Lucas and I got out of the van and prepared for what I imagined to be hell. That was when I heard the ear-piercing scream emitting from the house in front of us.

"This is the place then?" Lucas asked.

"Oh yeah and prepare for hell to come to life."

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Hello 😊

From now on my updates will be infrequent. School is coming back and I wanna keep focused unlike last semester.

Soooo until my next update

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