Shattered (14 page)

I’m trying to pull Liam back to me. Shit is about to get bad and fast.

“Liam, let’s just go.”

I keep pulling and pulling. Not getting anywhere.

“Liam, babe come on.”

“Yeah, Liam, it’s time for you to go. Here are your papers. Now you can leave and take that whore with you.”

“You will get what is coming to you one day, Tyler Childs. I’ll fucking see to that.”

I’m pushing Liam out the door. Next thing I know, I’m grabbed by the back of the head.

“You think it will be that fucking easy to leave me, bitch?” Tyler hisses in my ear. I go to pull away but he puts a knife to my throat.

“Stand the fuck still. And you, come in here and shut the door. You think you are so bad ass. Don’t you, Liam? The good boy. YOU AREN’T SHIT!! You ain’t no fucking better than me.

What makes you think he is better than me, Rain, huh? Fucking answer me, you dumb slut.”

He pulls me closer and the knife bites into my throat. Before I can say anything, Liam rushes forward, knocking the knife from Tyler’s hand. I’m free. I drop to the floor.

They start punching each other. Trading shots. I scream,

“STOP! PLEASE STOP!!”

They don’t hear me. They just keep fighting. Tyler fights to get away. Liam punches him once in the face, knocking him backward. When Tyler stands, up he has the knife in his hand.  Liam is walking toward me. I see the knife in his hand. I scream, “Liam, oh god.” But he doesn’t hear me in time. As soon as he turns around, Tyler stabs Liam in the chest.

“No,” I scream. “Tyler, stop, please stop. You have me. I won’t go anywhere. I swear, I won’t leave. Just let Liam go now. Just please kill me instead, just please don’t kill Liam, please, Tyler.”

Tyler is standing over Liam’s body. Liam is still breathing and I can see his eyes are still open, he is looking up at Tyler. Tyler goes to one knee and says something to Liam that I can’t hear, then raises the knife and slams it into Liam. I don’t where this one landed. I’m not screaming anymore but I have fallen to my knees and I am crying and saying Liam’s name.

I hear Tyler’s boots coming across the floor. He can do whatever he wants and I will not fight him. As soon as he is done, he will leave and I can call someone to help.

Tyler kicks me in the face with his steel toe boots and I fall back, landing so hard the breath is stolen from my lungs.  Jerking my legs apart, Tyler tears my pants from my body and slams himself inside. It hurts and the pain is like nothing I ever want to feel again. With each one of Tyler’s thrusts, he takes the knife that still has Liam’s blood on and cuts my skin. It burns but I won’t show him that it hurts. Fuck him. Thrust, cuts the side of my neck, thrust, now my cheek, thrust, across my chest. He bites his bottom lip, that’s how I know that this is almost over. Then I’ll be able to get Liam some help.

“Oh fuck,” Tyler says right before he bring the knife down and right thru my heart. He comes inside me, then whispers in my ear. “You get to die knowing that you are the reason Liam is dead. You were killed by the same blade.” Tyler licks the side of my face and turns my head so that I’m looking at Liam. He isn’t moving. It doesn’t even look like he is breathing.  Tyler continues in my ear.

“You are dying with me inside you. I will forever be inside you now, Rain. The man you love is dead and soon, so will you be. It is my time now, bitch. I’m finally rid of you. It feels so good to know that I took your last breath and that you died with my cock inside you. I hope you burn in hell.”

I can’t control the tears. I couldn’t save Liam. Why couldn’t he just let me go? He would be alive and looking after my babies. Now we are both dead. Tyler stands does up his pants and spits on me before leaving.

I have to get to Liam. If I am going to die, I want to die next to him. I’m so weak. I can hardly move. Once I make it to Liam, I crawl onto his chest. I place my hand on his face.

“I’m so sorry, Liam. I love you, you are my hear…….”

Rains words die as the life leaves her body, holding the only man she ever loved.

Chapter?

Liam

I hear Rainy, telling me she loves me. I want to tell her I love her, too. I want to yell at her and tell her to leave to get out. But nothing works. My body feels heavy. I need to get my eyes open or my mouth working or something. I have to make sure she is ok.

It sounds like the door was kicked open. I hear Storm yell, “Rainy, oh god no.”

What’s wrong with Rain? Dammit, body, work. Another voice adds in I know that voice too. That’s Man. My chest feels lighter, but Man yelling and crying doesn’t do anything to help me.

“Mom, come on, wake up. Don’t you give up. You fight, dammit. Mom, wake up. Uncle Storm, help, please. I can’t get her to wake up.”

I can feel hands moving over me. I want to scream at them to leave me alone and go to Rainy. But I can’t. My body is still working against me. I try one more time to move or speak anything but it doesn’t work and my world goes black.

Storm

I know something is wrong. I can feel it in my gut. I don’t know what is wrong or with who but I know something isn’t right. Man and I have been driving around looking for Liam and Rain because neither one of them are answering their phones. I just left Liam’s apartment where Rainy has been staying the last few weeks since she left Tyler for good after what he did to Gen. As I walk back to the car where Man is calling everyone we know, I pray the whole way, please let them be ok, lord please. When I reach the car I get in, lean back in the seat, and lay my head back.

“Did you have any luck, Man? Did you get in touch with anyone who knows where your mom and Liam are?” I wait a few minutes then look over at him. He has his phone in his hand and is just staring at it with his mouth open.

“Man, what the fuck dude, what is it? Is it Rain? Did you find her? Why are you sitting there like that? Fucking speak already,” I almost yell. Man jumps in his seat. I can tell by his eyes whatever is about to be said is in no way good. “Find your words and fucking use them, Man, right now.”

“That was Tyler’s boss. He said he didn’t know who else to call, he doesn’t know what is going on but that Tyler just showed up at the shop covered in blood. I don’t know, Uncle Storm, it doesn’t sound good.”

My heart stops at his words and his eyes meet mine.

“That mother fucker! Man, call 911 and send them to Tyler’s apartment.” I get my phone from my pocket dial Falls and start the car. When he picks up, I don’t give him time for a greeting I just start barking orders.

“Get to Tyler’s shop. His boss called Man said his ass just showed up covered in blood. Rain and Liam are MIA we have been looking for them all day. I’m heading to the apartment. You get to the shop. If that fucker did anything to my sister or Liam, he will die. And he will die by my hand alone. Do you fucking get me?” I don’t give him time to answer, I just hang up. I could hear him getting in his car while I was talking so I know he is doing what I said. Tyler Childs is finished.

As I pull up to the apartment building the feeling I have in my gut gets worse. Lord please let me be wrong. I need you to let me be wrong. Once I reach Tyler’s apartment I don’t bother knocking, I just kick the fucking door open. What I walk into is my worst nightmare. Rain is laying draped over the top half of Liam’s body, her eyes are open and lifeless and she has her hand resting on Liam’s face. There is blood everywhere.

“NO,” I yell and rush to my sister and drop to my knees. “Rain, oh my god, Rain, come on, baby sister, breathe.” I hear footsteps coming up behind me. I turn and see Man. He has stopped in his tracks, looking at his mom lying motionless in my arms and the tears hit his eyes. He runs to me and grabs his mom.

“Come on, Mom, wake up. Don’t give up, please. Don’t give up. Fight. Uncle Storm, help me please, don’t let her die. Come on, Mom. Fight this shit. Where the fuck is the ambulance?”

I check Liam, he has a pulse but it’s weak. Man is right, the bus needs to get here now. I grab my phone and call Falls.

“Speak to me,” he answers as a greeting.

“Rain and Liam are both down, Liam has a pulse but it’s weak as fuck.” I stop because I’m not sure I’m ready to speak out loud that Rain is gone.

“What about Rain?”

“I can’t. I just can’t say it.” But Falls has to hear it. HE loved Rain, too. He yells. “Damn you, Tobias Carmichael, u answer me right fucking now. What about Rain?”

“She’s gone. She is dead, she has no pulse and no heartbeat. The bastard killed her.” Before I can say more, Man starts yelling. He is holding her face against his neck. He is yelling and sobbing at the same time, his face in his Mom’s hair.

“No, she isn’t dead, Storm. Tell him you’re fucking wrong. You have to be wrong. She can’t be dead, she can’t be. She is strong. She will hold on, she has to. She has to.”

He starts rocking her again, pulling her tighter and closer to him while keeping her face in his neck. Whispering to her, “Just come back, Mom, please come back.”

“Get everyone here now, Falls. Liam’s pulse is there but its weak. I don’t think he will last long.” I hang up my phone and throw it to the floor. I fall on my ass, put my head in my hands and cry. For the first time in my adult life, I cry, I just let it all out. And all I can think is, that bastard took my sister. He took her life. I’ll be the one to take his.

Man wouldn’t let anyone touch his mom. They checked for a pulse and heartbeat all while he held her in his arms. They tried to get him to place her on the stretcher, but he refused. He carried her all the way to the ambulance and climbed in with her, keeping her in his arms the whole time. When I rounded the side, they were telling Man he had to let her go and lay her down. He just sat there brushing her hair from her face.

Falls tells them that they are to leave him alone and let him have his last moments with his mom and if they had anything to say about it to say it to him but to leave the kid alone.

They shut the doors of the ambulance, with my sister and my nephew sitting in the back. I could see Man thru the window, he was just looking down at Rain like he was hoping she would wake up at any min.

Falls walks over to me where I’m sitting on the hood of my car. I need to be heading to the hospital. The family is already on their way there, but I need to talk to Falls first. Falls throws down two sheets of papers. One is the adoption papers and the other are divorce papers. The mother fucker signed them before he killed my sister. When he sits, he doesn’t say anything. I don’t either. I sit there and watch the ambulance drive away with my sister. Knowing that I’ll never be able to see her smile or chew my ass for letting the boys cuss.

As soon as the ambulance is out of sight, Falls says, “You know the paramedics said that Liam is alive because of what Rainy did. She saved his life, Storm.”

I just nod my head. I’m glad that Liam is alive, but I would be happier if they had both lived. I don’t think Liam is going to think it’s a good thing once he wakes up. He loved Rain for more than half his life. I don’t know how I should feel right now. But I do know that I need Falls help right now. I don’t care how he does it, but I need him to make it happen. There is no room for excuses.

“I don’t want him doing a lot of time, Falls. I know that sounds fucked up, but that son of a bitch killed my baby sister. Him spending the rest of his life in jail lets him off easy. I want him to pay for what he did to Gen and Liam but more importantly I want to feel him take his last breath. I wanna see the life leave his eyes just to bring his ass back and start all over again. That is how he will pay for what he did to Rain. Do you understand what I’m saying, Falls? He will fucking suffer by my hand. He will die by my fucking hand. I know you are of the law well so am I, but I will not let him get away with what he has done.”

“I’ll see what I can do Storm but Tyler has made this a sealed tight case. He is going.”

I cut his ass off. He isn’t hearing me.

“I don’t want to hear that shit, Falls. He doesn’t get the easy fucking way out. The bastard dies by my hand. He doesn’t get to rot in a jail cell. Rape and beatings are not enough, they aren’t good enough. I want his fucking pain. You do what the fuck you have to in order to make this happen, Falls.”

I don’t give him time to reply, I stand and walk to the cop car they have Tyler in. I stand at the car and just look at him. This is the man that took my sister, this man beat her everyday they were together. This man is poison.

Tyler meets my eyes and smiles, then he blows me a kiss. “Her pussy felt so fucking good around my cock as she died. I can almost still feel it. It kinda sucks that she is gone. I would love a fucking replay of that shit.”

“You sick son of a bitch. I will fucking kill you.” I then put my fist through the window, hit his stupid ass right in the nose, then I make a grab for him and slam his head into the car door. I feel hands on me pulling me. I let Tyler go. His face is covered in blood but he is still fucking smiling. He has pieces of glass sticking out of his face. It still doesn’t make me feel any better, I need more.

“That all you got you fucking pussy? Your sister used to hit harder.”

I get ready to jump at him again but Falls is in my face.

“You want me to help, fine. Now you help me. Walk away, Storm. Go to the hospital and be with your family. You know they are going to need you. I’ll be right behind you.”