His Innocent Queen

Chapter 4

Ace's POV

I could hear someone snoring in the same room as me and it was making my head hurt worse than it already did. I opened my eyes, but my vision was blurry, and the room was dark. I blinked a few times trying to get my vision to clear up and when it did, I could see that Reign was the one making the noise.

"Shut up," I croaked out and then winced in pain because it hurt to f*****g talk.

He didn't even move so I said it again this time even louder and I sounded even worse this time. I need some f*****g water.

"You are awake," he said groggily.

"And you f*****g snore. It woke me up."

"How do you feel?"

"I feel like I've been run over by a truck. What happened?"

"Do you remember anything?"

"I remember heading to the costume party. I was late and then" I started to say but stopped because I have this vision of someone in white. She was like an angel. She was perfect and she saved me.

"What else?"

"I remember someone in white there saving me. It's weird. I can only remember someone in white, a girl. She saved me. She was like an angel."

"That was no angel. That was Berkley and she did save your ass. Someone knocked you unconscious. You have a skull fracture and ended up having a seizure and then your heart stopped. They had to do CPR. You f*****g died on me man."

"I'm sorry," I said confused because it's not like I could help it.

"How long have I been out."

"Two days. It's early Tuesday.

"Get me some water and pain meds that would be nice," I said closing my eyes. I heard him get up from his chair and leave the room.

I had so many questions but right now I just wanted to go back to sleep. It didn't hurt when I was asleep. Reign came in a few minutes later with a nurse.

"Hello Ace, glad to see you are awake. Your brother here says you would like some pain meds and water."

"That would fantastic."

"I'm going to push some meds into your IV and Gloria will bring some water in just a minute."

I swear I could feel the s**t she pushed through my IV instantly. I felt like I was floating, and I felt amazing. I kept my eyes closed and soon I was asleep before I got my water.

The next time I opened my eyes Dominic and Tate were both here. God, they need to go home. They are loud. My head was still pounding.

"Shut up, you fuckers are loud and where's my water."

"God you're annoying when your hurt," Tate said handing me a glass of water. I drank down as much as I could.

"Have you guys figured out who did this?"

"Snow." Dominic said.

"That was Ellie's mom, and that b***h is dead." I said. I wasn't understanding because Snow turned out to be Ellie's mom and Tates dad working together trying to take us down. They almost succeeded in killing Ellie but she lived and we were able to kill them. I was so confused with that they were saying.

"Either we got it wrong or there is someone pretending to be her," Reign said.

"My head hurts too much for this s**t and you guys are loud. When can I get out of here?" I said looking at all of them.

"You are going to be here for a few days."

"f**k that I need to leave today." I said, starting to push the blankets back but stopped quickly when I pulled on something and it pulled on my junk.

"What the f**k?" I said out loud and pulled the blanket back. "I have a catheter. Why the hell would they put that in me? Someone get a nurse to get this damn thing out now." I yelled out.

"Did you want to just piss yourself while you were unconscious, because I wasn't going to clean that s**t up." Tate said.

"I'll get a nurse," Dominic said and walked out of the room.

"Seriously you guys need to get me out of here," I whined.

Before anyone could answer me, the door opened, and Dominic came back with a nurse.

"You seem to be doing good this morning," she said coming over to my bed.

"Yes, you can actually let me go home."

"Well, I don't know that the doctor is going to want to send you home just yet, but I'm going to let him know that you are awake, and I will see about getting that catheter out. How does your head feel?"

"It f*****g hurts and let's skip the doctor and take this catheter out."

"I can't. The doctor has to approve it."

"I'll do it myself then."

"I wouldn't advise that. First of all, it's going to hurt like you can't believe and it can actually cause damage and I'm sure that you don't want that," the nurse said and I sure as s**t didn't want that. I wanted to continue to use him for the rest of my life as of as possible.

The nurse walked out and closed my eyes in frustration. I just wanted to get the hell out of here and go home and sleep in my own bed. The guys had all sat down and were just staring at each other.

"You guys can go home, you don't need to babysit me."

"We aren't going anywhere," Dominic said.

"Fine at least go get me some food and not that shitty food downstairs. I want something good."

"I'll go," Dominic said. He hated hospitals. He spent some time here when his mother died.

He got orders from everyone and left and right after he left someone else walked in and when they did it was my angel. She was in scrubs and damn it I loved it.

"Berkley, what are you doing here?" Tate snapped at her, and she looked embarrassed about it.

"I just wanted to check on Ace. I was on my lunch break." she said looking down.

"You can see that he is fine. You should probably go eat something," Tate said and she turned and started out of the room.

"Berkley wait," I said but she just stopped where she was at but didn't turn around.

"You don't need to leave. Tate's just being an asshole."

"It's fine, I'm glad you're doing better," she said and walked out.

As soon as the door shut, I turned to Tate, "What the f**k is your problem? She was just being sweet and checking on me. Don't be such an ass, that's your sister."

"Exactly," he said and stormed out of the room.

"What the hell is his problem?" I asked Reign.

"He thinks you and his sister are a bad idea and doesn't want you two together."

"Well to bad it's not up to him."

"Just leave it alone. We don't need any more damn drama."

'You can leave. I want to sleep. Just let me have some peace," I told him. I hadn't been up for more than a few hours and I was already over them. All they ever did was piss me off. He got up, grabbed his jacket and stomped out of the room as well.

I closed my eyes and relaxed and just as I was getting comfortable the door opened again and the same nurse from earlier came in with that damn cheery smile still.

"Good news, the doctor has said that we could take the catheter out and we're going to move you to a different floor. That's great news. Means you're doing good."

"Good. Hey, do you know a nurse who works in the ER by the name of Berkley?"

"I have heard the name. Do you know her?"

"Kind of but I would really like to talk to her. Do you think you could see if she could come up here for a minute."

"Let me see what I can do. I'm going to take your catheter out now. Just try and relax." she said, and she flopped my junk out and started doing God knows what and then told me take a deep breath and mother fucker whatever she did hurt like a b***h.

"All done, I'm going to start the paperwork and call down to the other floor to get you transferred."

"Please see about Berkley."

"That too," she said and left the room.

I closed my eyes trying to get some more sleep when the damn door opened again. When I opened my eyes this time I met with my angel. My nurse came through and found her.

"You wanted to see me?" She said standing back. I looked at her face and those big blue eyes were so beautiful that they drew me in. She cleared her throat waiting for me to say something.

"I wanted to thank you. I know you're the one who saved me that night."

"I didn't save you. I just found you."

"Well, thank you."

"No need for thanks but I do need to leave," she said with a flush to her face. Looking her over again I saw the big gash on her head and curiosity got the better of me.

"What happened to your head?"

"Oh nothing." she said, bringing her hand up to her head and running her fingers over it.

"Sure, looks like something. What happened?"

"I hit my head. Look I need to go I shouldn't be in here. I'm glad that you're OK. Goodbye Ace," she said and turned and walked out of my room, but it sounded more like a formal goodbye than anything. Her words held more meaning than I think she wanted them too.

"I have your food," Dominic said coming into my room. f**k these guys had the worst timing. I really only wanted to see Berkley. I don’t know if it was because she saved me or if Tate didn’t want us together or if there was something more there, but I wanted to get to know her more. I’ve always flirted with her but I’m seeing her in a new light now and I like it.

"Where did everyone go?" he asked, looking around and holding four boxes of food.

"Tate got pissed and left and I kicked Reign out."

He placed my down on the tray beside my bed and pushed it over me. I dug into the food, and it had never tasted so good.

"So, what did Tate get so pissed off about? He's been in a good mood since he and Ellie have gotten back together."

"Berkley. She came up here to check on me and he was a total ass to her."

"Because she likes you and he's told you how many times that you need to stay away from her."

"I know and I will now, but damn she is hot, and I would love to take her out. What happened to her head? She came back after everyone left and I saw the giant gash on her forehead."

"Some dickweed tried to attack her after we brought you to the ER. Don't worry, Tate took care of him. He won't be doing anything for a while."

"He didn't kill him?"

"No, but I'm not sure why not. He deserved it. Said she was slut because of what she was wearing and tried to rape her. Reign heard her yell."

"Should have f*****g killed him."

"Agreed."

"Any leads on who Snow is or the copycat?"

"Not really. We pulled the camera footage, and the person came from the parking lot with a crowbar. You never even saw them. They were in all black, hit you over the head, you went down, and they threw some of the famous snowflake cards on the ground and ran off."

"It fits their usual attacks, but I could have sworn that it was Ellie's mom and Tate's dad."

"So did we and were still not sure if it's the same person or someone who knows what they did and is trying to scare us."

"I don't know but do you guys have protection detail on the girls. All of them."

"Yes, and even a guy outside your room."

"I don't need anyone."

"Really because they about succeeded in killing you."

"But I lived and always do."

"Until you don't and not to get all sappy on you, but I would prefer you to stick around."

"Aw you love me," I told him as I placed my hand over my heart and gave him my best love-struck face.