Page 62 of Ronny

Once the ambulance starts moving again is the first time Olivia has moved since this whole shit show started.

She barely cracks her eyes open to look at me. “Well, I thought those people would never leave,” she says, her voice sounding rough.

“Fuck, you had me scared. Is your head hurting?” I ask her, pulling her off the gurney and into my lap.

She nods. “I got so scared when they said you were shot and I passed out instantly. I think I forgot to eat lunch and that helped contribute to it.”

I kiss her forehead, holding her way too tight, but that shit terrified me. I don’t give a fuck what happens to me, but not being able to protect someone I love is the worst kind of torture.

Brian stops the ambulance and outside of the window, I can see we are in front of the hospital.

I open the door and step out with Olivia in my arms and rush toward the entrance. Konrad runs up as we get toward the doors. “Fuck, we were coming to chase you down when we saw you heading toward the hospital.”

That is when I hear the rest of the horde of bikes—my family is here. “My fucking aunt stole the ambulance with us in it.” He looks horrified at my words, but we hurry the rest of the way inside.

“Get me a gurney,” Konrad tells the nurse at the front, and she runs off to grab a bed. Olivia raises her head, gasping loudly. “Oh my God! I forgot that you were shot. You shouldn’t be carrying me.” She tries to get me to put her down, but I don’t.

Brian takes her from me with a smirk, making me want to punch him in the mouth for that.

“I just got shot in my thigh, it’s not serious,” I tell her, and she looks relieved but she is still pale.

“I can’t believe I was kidnapped again,” she mutters under her breath, just before her eyes meet mine. “I’m glad it was us rather than Madeline, otherwise I would have killed her.” She growls the last part adorably with her little hands clenched.

Her dad is trying not to laugh.

“Easy, tiger, she will get what she deserves.” I look at her pointedly, telling her with my eyes that my aunt is going to get what’s coming to her.

She runs her hand over her face to the back of her head, feeling for the knot on the back of her head. She winces, and I look around for the nurse, wanting to get Olivia something for the pain.

The nurse eventually comes back with a gurney and Brian lays her down. I hold the back of Olivia’s head so she doesn’t jostle it.

They wheel her away and a nurse steps in front of me. “We will take good care of her. I will take you to her room in the ER department where you can wait for her, and where you can get your leg looked at.”

I look down to see the wound is starting to bleed again.

“I will stay with her the whole time,” Konrad tells me before he runs to catch up with her, leaving me with Brian.

The nurse takes me into a room where she has me sit down so she can look at the wound, but the pain is nothing like waiting to see if Olivia is okay.

Olivia

Konrad never once left my side while I was at the emergency room. I was a little bit worried that Ronny’s aunt would come back and try something again.

I also want to talk to Ronny so that he doesn’t blame himself for this, because it’s not his fault.

An hour later, after a ton of tests and scans, I’m finally taken back to a room where Ronny is sitting in fresh clothes that someone must have brought for him.

He stands up when he sees me and lifts me out of the wheelchair, carrying me over to the bed with me in his lap.

I wait for the nurse to leave before I talk to him. “Ronny, I know you, and I know you feel guilty for what she did, but this is not on you, okay?”

He nods, kissing my temple. “She is going to die,” he says bluntly, running his hands down my body like he is reassuring himself that I’m still here and that I’m okay.

“Good.”

He looks at me, slightly dazed at my comment, before chuckling. “She can’t live and be a threat to our daughter. She is going to want to come back over and over again for more money.”

“Who has Madeline?” I ask him.

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