EroticReverie

Evie ….twenty four hours later…

I lost count of how many there were. I disassociated after the second man. 

“Evie” Zades voice croaks across the dark empty space. I wince. Laid over a table. Tied to it. My blood dried to the steel table. My lips throbbing with cuts and bruises. My throat on fire. Dry and parched now…and battered from however many men had used it. 

I don’t know where we were exactly. All I knew was Zade was alive. Because they’d made him watch. For hours. 

“Evie” he groans. I can hear the wince and hiss of pain in his voice. I couldn’t look at him. I knew he was in a bad state too. Because when I wouldn’t cry for the men raping me. They’d made me cry for Zade. Beating him. The rattling of chains as they swung on him and hear fists and feet punching and kicking at him. I couldn’t look at him. I was currently naked, beaten , covered in my own blood and piss. I couldn’t look him in the eyes. 

“This is my fault, I’m so sorry Evie” he says and I hear the scuffle of his chains. 

“Look at me Evie” he says and I whimper and keep my cheek to the cold steel and close my eyes. Warm tears slipping out of them. 

“I’ll get us out of here….ill get you out of here….i promise…we’ll go far away from here baby, I promise” he says and I whimper harder. 

“I shouldn’t have brought you back, I was weak…just like you said…this is my fault….ill get you out of here baby, I promise” he says and the wavering of his voice. The sound of near tears coming from him has me crying. 

“Look at me Evie” he says and I whimper. Sniffling. Lifting my head. Forcing my eyes to meet his. Not more than fifteen feet from where I am. I cry harder seeing his swollen eyes. His bloodied face and bruises swelling ok his face. His shirt soaked in his own blood. His clothes mangled and dirty from being kicked and beaten just so they could make me cry. 

“I’m sorry” he says. “I’m so fucking sorry” 

I just nod and then lower my head again because it hurts to keep it up. Everything. Absolutely everything on my body hurts. 

He doesn’t talk anymore. And I don’t know how much time passes before a man comes downstairs. I tremble. But he unties me. Scooping me up and carrying me from the basement as another man walks in. 

I’m thrown into a smaller room with a drain and  the man throws on the shower that sprays ice cold water down on me making me cry out. A bar soap is thrown to the floor. 

“You’ve got two minutes.” He says and I’m left whimpering and trying to crawl to the soap. Trying to stand on legs that don’t want to hold me. I’m leaning on the wall as I try to scrub myself clean. Try to clean all of them off of me. 

I can hear voices. Several of them. A commotion. The man standing outside the small shower grabs a gun at his side and draws it and curl into myself as several gun shots go off. My hands clapping over my ears as I cry. 

“Get her, I’ve got Zade” a voice bellows. I’m shaking. Afraid to even look up as multiple pairs of boots hit the shower floor. 

“Jesus Christ” a familiar voice mutters. My eyes lift. 

“Fucking hell” Arrow mutters and then rushes over to me. 

“We’ve got you” he whispers as Harrison turns off the water , slamming the lever down. Arrow pulls off his jacket and wraps it around me as I shake. His hands lifting me off the floor. Cursing as he takes in the bruises and cuts all over me. My swollen mouth and eye. I sob as he holds me right to him and carries me from the room. 

“Let’s get the fuck out of here. We’ve got two fucking minutes before more arrive” I hear Bryce say as I look over to find him and Diesel hauling Zade to his feet. 

“Fuck man, Jesus you weigh more than a fucking Mack truck brother” Diesel grunts as they throw his arms around both him and Bryce. 

They’re all here. Allstate except one. Steele of course isn’t here. But Bryce. Diesel. Harrison. Kane and Arrow. 

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I don’t know if they came for him or for both of us. But as Arrow clutches me to him in the back seat of the suv, I have to believe that it wasn’t just Zade they came for. A small soft kiss is placed on my head as I fall asleep to the sound of the cars engine purring as it speeds away from where I thought I was going to die. 

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I can barely walk, but I manage. We’re someplace in the mountains. In a cabin tucked away in the woods. I didn’t care enough to ask them where exactly we were when they fed me and put me to bed. 

The cabin is quiet and I walk so slowly that there’s no need for me to tip because I can barely move as it is. 

I look down over the thick wooden railing into why must be the main living area multiple bodies strewn over the couches and recliner and Harrison sits at the large glass window, some kind of rifle in his lap. Just staring out at the dark. His head pivots and he stands. Sensing me and I suck in a breath as he aims it right at me. 

“Jesus” he exhales and lowers it. 

“Where is Zade?” I ask him and he lowers it even further. He nods to the other side of the cabin on the second floor where I stand. 

“Thanks for not shooting me” I say and I can see a small shake of his head and the hint of smile. 

I keep walking. Pushing open the door and find Zade propped up in bed. A light dimmed by his bedside on the table. His eyes open and he flinches. And flinches again when he sees it’s me. His eyes on my legs. On my arms. On my face. 

“You should be resting” he says and I shut his door softly and walk over to him. His nostrils flaring and his jaw clenching as he watches me limp towards him. 

“Evie” he starts to speak. 

“Shhh, don’t talk. Okay?” I say as I look at him and lift my leg carefully and wince as I shift myself up into the bed and lay down near him. 

“I don’t want to talk about it right now. Any of it. I just want you to tell me one thing….”

“Anything” he says as I lay my head on his thigh over the covers. His hand coming to my hair. 

“Tell me you didn’t mean what you said that day.” I say. He couldn’t take back what he said but he could tell me he didn’t mean it. 

“I didn’t mean it.  Not a word of it.” He says and I nod with my sore cheek against the blanket. 

“Don’t hurt me again. Okay?” I whisper.

“Okay.” He says softly and strokes my hair. 

“Don’t let them take me again.” I say and he gently fists my hair. 

“I wont” he says. 

“When I’m feeling better…I’m going to yell at you…a lot” I say and he gives a soft laugh and strokes my hair. 

“Can’t wait” he says and I lift my head and shift upward and put myself on my knees as I take him in. His beautiful face, bruised and swollen. 

I lift a hand gingerly to his face and he winces at the slightest touch. 

“Can I kiss you?” I ask and his swollen eyes look at me and he nods. 

“Tell me where , so it doesn’t hurt you” I say. Softly. 

“Just kiss me baby” he whispers and I smirk softly and lean in and gently place my swollen and cracked lips to his equally busted lips. Just a soft brush of lips and the smallest bit of pressure. 

“I’m gonna give you hell Zade” I whisper. 

“I’ll deserve every bit of it” he says and I smile. 

“I didn’t mean what I said either” I say and gently place my hand on his chest and keep my face near his. My nose gently touching the tip of his. 

“She didn’t deserve you…it’s her loss” I say and he forces a small smile. 

“Thanks” he says. 

“I mean it Zade” I say and he smiles a bit more and wince from the pain of it. 

“I know baby” he says and I smile softly and kiss his mouth once more. 

“Get some sleep” he says and I nod. I kiss him once more. 

“You too” I say as I lay my head on his chest instead of slipping down and resting it on a pillow. 

“This is the last time you wear another man’s clothes Evangelina” he says and I can’t help the little laugh that shakes me. 

“Yes sir” I say sarcastically. I was wearing one of the other guys shirts. Harrison’s I think. I wasn’t even sure. 

“Goodnight Evangelina” he says. 

“Goodnight Zade” I exhale with a small smile that I’m not sure how I manage after everything that’s happened. I know tomorrow it’ll hit me again. But right now , I just let myself be. In his arms. Picking up where we left off on those few perfect days where I was just his. I just wanted to erase the past few weeks and go back to the start of something with Zade. 

I just wanted to laugh with him. And fight with him while we fucked. I wanted to let the feelings I’d been catching a chance to be more.  I’d deal with everything else in the morning. Tonight , as I fall asleep beside him. I’m going to pretend nothing can ruin it.