Page 121 of Home With You

I look into his eyes."Take me back with you, baby. We could start again. It'd be even better than before."

"Please," Levi moans. "Someone help me!"

"Fuck!" Rob drops his hold on me and storms toward Levi. "I told you to shut the fuck up!"

Grabbing my knife from my jacket, I race up behind Rob and stab the side of his neck.

"What the—" He whips around, the knife sticking out of his neck. "You little bitch!" He stumbles toward me, then falls to his knees, his eyes fluttering as he collapses to the ground.

"Do it again!" Levi yells, his eyes wide, voice panicked. "Kill him!"

"I think he might already be dead," I say, watching the blood pour from him.

"He ain't dead. He passed out. Get the fucking knife and do it again!"

Rob's face-down on the pavement, his body limp, his eyes shut.

"Hurry up!" Levi yells. "Do it!"

I kneel down next to Rob. I cringe as I slowly pull the knife out of his neck.

"What's going on?" I hear someone say.

Turning back, I see a guy coming toward me. He's a short pudgy guy wearing jeans and red hoodie. He looks down at Levi and Rob on the ground, both bleeding. Then he looks at me, holding a bloody knife. Shit, this doesn't look good.

"He attacked me," I say, backing away from Rob. "I swear, I'm not lying."

"It's true!" Levi says. "He said he was going to kill her."

"And what happened to you?" the guy asks Levi.

"Some guy stabbed me. Don't just stand there! Get your fucking phone out and call the police! And a fucking ambulance!"

The guy gets his phone out as he slowly backs away from us. He looks scared to death. I'd be scared too if I walked down an alley and saw two guys on the ground bleeding and a girl holding a bloody knife.

"Okay, I called them," the guy says. “I’m getting out of here."

"Wait!" I yell at him. "Could you call someone else?" I give him Miles' number and tell him what to say. "Thank you!" I yell as the guy runs off.

"This is some messed up shit," Levi says.

I carefully walk around Rob over to Levi, crouching down next to him. "What can I do? Anything?"

He holds up the hand that's not clutching his side. I take it and hold it.

"It's going to be okay, Levi."

He squeezes my hand. "I know I pretend I don't like you, but I do, girl. I always have."

"I know," I say, smiling at him.

He closes his eyes. "What's taking so long?"

"They'll be here. Just a few more minutes."

I keep hold of his hand as my eyes remain on Rob. Blood's still pouring from his neck but I don't think he's dead. I think he just fainted from the loss of blood.

"Raine!" Miles appears, sprinting through the parking lot to the alley. "What the hell happened?"

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