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Jana chuckled. She did feel better, so I agreed. They made tentative plans for the next time they had a day off.

She hugged and then waved as she watched Mick go into the building.

Chapter Ten

Looking around as she pulled into her driveway, Jana made a list of things she needed to do out in the yard the next day. It definitely needed mowing, and the flower beds weeded. It would be the only day she would have the time for a few weeks.

The attack came out of nowhere. She’d been putting her key in the lock when she was shoved into the wood. She felt her nose connect with the hard surface and instantly started to gush blood. When she realized what was happening, she started to scream and fight.

“You fucking cunt. You’ll pay for what you did to me,” the man’s voice said behind her and close to her ear.

He tried to keep his hand over her mouth, but she would twist to the side and yell as loud as she could. It enraged him, so his blows became even more painful. She still fought as hard as she could because she had no idea if he would kill her. She felt him lashing out at her face, back, and arms. She kept kicking and trying to scream when he took his hand off her mouth.

“Hey!” a voice shouted off to the side.

“Fuck,” the guy said. “I’ll be seeing you again soon.” He punched her one more time in the side before running away.

Jana slid to the ground. She tried her best to stay conscious because the boy was already freaking out.

“Oh, Jesus, Jana!” Cody yelled as he slid down beside her.

Jana saw him start to panic and guessed she must not look very good. “Cody,” she said. Although her lip was split and bleeding, she needed to get him moving because she didn’t know if the guy would return, and she didn’t want Cody to be hurt.

“Go get your mom, honey.”

“I’ll be right back.”

Jana nodded and tried to rest on her side, but her body hurt everywhere. She must have dozed because she heard a commotion and saw Cody and his mom kneeling beside her. Penny was on the phone giving someone the address.

Within five minutes, she heard sirens. She dozed off and on as the paramedics got her on the stretcher and into the ambulance.

“Fuck, is that you, Jana?” one of the paramedics, Devon, asked after they got her settled in the back of the ambulance. He was one she’d seen several times when he brought injured people to the ER.

“Yeah.” Hell, if he couldn’t recognize her, she must be a mess.

She heard knocking, and then Devon yelled up to Joseph, the driver, to hurry and told him who she was. If she hadn’t been strapped down and Devon holding her steady, she would have rolled off the gurney when Joseph took turns.

She would have told them to slow down, but she didn’t have the energy and wanted the pain meds she knew they’d give her as they checked her over in the ER.

Jana was pretty sure there were no internal injuries. It was mostly superficial, but her attacker managed to hit any available surface on her body. She knew she’d have bruises everywhere and maybe a slight concussion from when the bastard had punched her in the head several times.

The next time she opened her eyes, a doctor she worked with was standing over her, trying to ask her questions, while a few nurses she knew well took her vitals and cut off her clothing.

“Jana,” Dr. Collins said. “One of the paramedics said you’ve been beaten?”

“Yes.” It hurt to talk, so she whispered as much as she could.

“Do you know who it was?” Carolina, one of the nurses, asked.

“No. I didn’t recognize the voice, and he had my front pressed against the door so that I couldn’t get a good look at him.”

“Bastard,” Carolina murmured.

Jana agreed.

They covered her with a warm blanket when she started to shake from shock and put in an IV and some pain meds. Not a lot because they ordered a CAT scan for her, but it helped take the edge off the pain.

A few exhausting hours later, she was put into a private room and given a sedative. She only had a slight concussion, so they could give her a larger dose but still check on her frequently and hook her up to any machine they could.

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