My vision darkened at the edges.
I opened my mouth to curse him out again.
To tell him I would never belong to him.
To tell him I would never soften for him.
The words never came.
Everything went black.
The last thing I felt was his arms catching me before I hit the ground.
For a second, right before the darkness swallowed me, I heard his voice break.
“Yuna.”
Thennothing.
CHAPTER 26
Ares
“I Stayed”
Yuna collapsed before I could even finish the argument. One second, she was standing there, stubborn as hell, telling me she didn’t need help.
The next second, her body just gave out.
I caught her before she hit the floor.
“Putain,” I muttered under my breath.Fuck.
Her weight went slack in my arms. Light. Too light. Her breathing was shallow against my chest, barely there.
The doctor was already moving.
“Bring her upstairs,” he said quickly.
“Where else am I going to take her?” I snapped.
I carried her through the house, taking the stairs two at a time while the doctor and a nurse followed behind me.
Her head rested against my shoulder, curls brushing my lips. Her skin was pale, colder than it should have been.
“Open the room,” I ordered.
A maid rushed ahead and pushed the bedroom doors open.
I laid her carefully on the bed and stepped back while the doctor moved in, checking her pulse, lifting her eyelids, attaching monitors like he had done this a thousand times.
The nurse hung another IV bag.
I stood at the end of the bed watching them work.
I couldn’t deny I was mad as fuck she was acting out, but I knew she couldn’t control it.
“She’s insane,” I muttered in French. “Running down a hill barefoot like a lunatic. I should have run her ass over. Give her a reason to feel hurt.”
