“Get him the fuck out of here.” I hear another voice say.
I look at Tristan.
“Is Giovanna okay? Is she hurt?” I sob.
“No. She’s okay. We’re going to get you to the hospital.” He says as he picks me up.
I nod as I hold onto him.
“I knew you’d come.”
Tristan carries me outside and into one of the cars. He holds me the entire way to the hospital. All I can do is hold onto him and cry.
Tristan
“I need a fucking shower.” Ares grumbles as he drives.
“Yeah, me too. His micro penis touched me. I’m pretty sure I’m having an allergic reaction to it.” Eros says as he looks at his arm.
“We should get it looked at when we get to Lucciola Memorial.”
I laugh at them as I hold my girl.
“They’re crazy.” Lily says softly. “But I love them for trying to make me smile.”
“Well we’re family and this is what we do. You’re safe now, Lily. Carson won’t touch you again.”
“How did you know it was Carson?” she asks.
“We got a picture from the surveillance cameras. And Sebastiano realized that his eyes were the same. But what I don’t understand is how he made himself look different. Because seeing him today? He looked like himself.”
“He was wearing a mask. Well kind of a mask. He pulled it off his face.” She stutters when she’s talking and it’s making me angrier.
When we get to the hospital, they run tests and document her bruises. Because this is our Lake Renegade hospital, they don’t ask too many questions. Lily said she wasn’t raped. But that won’t make me go any easier on Carson later. The cuts and bruises on her…no one touches my girl and gets away with it. Before we went into the house, I asked Enea if I could be there when they talked to Carson and he agreed.
Lily chose not to stay over night and I don’t blame her. We plan to stay at my house on the property. Lily’s parents wanted her to come home with them. But she told them no, that she needed to stay with me. They had dinner with all of us before heading back home.
“I need to go to the clubhouse. You can come with me, but you have to stay upstairs with the other women.” I say as I hold her.
“Okay. You’re going to take care of Carson?” she asks.
“Yes.”
I don’t know what else to say to her. Because I refuse to lie to her. We make our way to the Cimaruta clubhouse. Lily runs to Giovanna and holds her.
“Thank god you’re okay.” Lily sobs.
“I’m okay. That other guy didn’t touch me. He told me he was there to help Carson take you. Carson told him to do whatever hewanted with me. But thank god he knew who my papà was and he was too scared of him to touch me. The real question is, are you okay?”
“I will be. I told myself that I could deal with anything Carson did to me. As long as I could get back to Tristan.”
“You’re a strong woman and you’ll get past this.”
“They’re going to kill Carson, aren’t they?” she asks. She looks at Giovanna and then at me.
“Do you really want to know?” Giovanna asks.
“Yes.”
