Page 30 of The Pretty Psycho

My. Fucking. Girl.

My lungs expanded as if I could finally breathe. My muscles filled with renewed energy while my hands trembled, desperate to touch her. She looked almost the same as this morning, but the sight of her bloodied hands made me stop abruptly.

"What happened?" I breathed out, grasping her hands in mine without a second thought. She tried pulling them back, but I wasn't budging. "Bambi?" I looked at her, seeing that defiance in her eyes, but she stopped trying to get away when she reallylooked at me. I was done hiding my emotions from her. Done with shutting her out.

I would tell her everything there was to know in due time, because she deserved to know everything. The good, the bad, the terrible. She deserved to know the kind of baggage I always carried with me, and I just hoped she'd stay.

She looked over my shoulder, and whatever she saw there, or whoever she saw, had her calming down.

"I'm okay," she murmured, giving me those eyes. God, I could drown in their depths. I’d never met another person with heterochromia, and I never knew how fascinating it was.

Her hand lifted up, landing on my cheek. "I'm really, really okay, Adrian. But I'm tired." She smiled. "And I would actually like to get a nice, hot shower and just sleep. For two days straight, if that's in any way possible."

Right. "Right," I murmured out loud and started moving back, allowing her to exit the car. I could feel the rest of the group looking at us, but I ignored them all. They could get their questions answered later on, and if they wanted a show they wouldn't be getting it.

Not right now.

Vega slipped out of the car, too slow for my liking, and if I wasn't already looking at her, I would've missed the deep wrinkle etched between her brows or the barely-there shaking of her legs. She held on to the door of the car, looking at everyone with wide, amused eyes. "I'm fine, people. Stop looking at me like I will fall apart any second now."

"Oh, trust me." Dimitri laughed. "After seeing what you did to those men, I don't think you will fall apart. As a matter of fact, I would like to ask you to always be absolutely nice to me, because I am seriously afraid of you."

"Ha ha," Vega mocked.

What men? What the fuck happened in the hospital?

"Adrian," she mumbled, pulling my attention to her. "You're glaring at Dimitri."

"What fucking men?" I barked out, earning an eye roll from her.

"Here we go."

"Vega?"

She took a deep breath before turning toward me, giving me her full attention. "There were two men who came into my hospital room, trying to kidnap me. Again, might I add." My eyes volleyed from her to Arseniy and Dimitri. They were supposed to protect her. "So, I killed them." She shrugged.

"You killed them?"

"Yeah." Those mismatched eyes rolled again. "I killed them. It's not the first time I killed a grown-ass man. I'll probably do it again."

My eyes closed, my blood pressure skyrocketing. At this point I would end up in the hospital with cardiovascular disease because these people kept fucking testing my patience.

"So she was alone?" I asked no one in particular, but everyone knew who it was directed to.

"I was with her," Yolanda piped in, and if looks could kill, she would've been dead on the spot the moment I opened my eyes. Jax glowered, moving her closer to him, but none of them were safe from my rage.

"Hey, she's okay, Adrian," Dimitri piped in. Wrong fucking move.

"You were supposed to protect her!" I bellowed, needing this anger, this wicked energy, out of me. "You told us you would protect her."

"And we tried!" he yelled back. "But we were only two people and we couldn't exactly cover everything."

"You should've told me. I would've?—"

"You would've what?" Dimitri barked. "Come on, Adrian. We all know you wouldn't have been able to get there in time. None of you would've. So chill the fuck out and stop yelling. Everyone's tired. Everyone wants to shower and sleep. You can save your yelling for tomorrow."

But I wasn't done yelling. I wasn't done being pissed off. I took a step toward Dimitri when Vega's voice stopped me.

"All right. That's it. I'm out of here." She turned away from the car, walking slowly in the direction of the dorms.

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