His Innocent Queen

Chapter 3

Berkley's POV

"Berkley, what the hell is going on?" Tate asked, snapping me out of my trance.

"He had a seizure and then his heart stopped, that's when we had to leave the room. Let me go see what's going on," I said and turned right back around and went back to the room they had him in. Things had calmed down and they had his heart beating again.

"Berkley, your friend is headed up to CT to see what is going on. I've also set out standard blood work. What do you know about him? Anything we should be concerned about?"

"I uh I don't know him that well. You need to talk to his brother. He and my stepbrother are good friends, that's how I know him." I told Dr. Smith, who nodded, and he and I both went back out to the waiting room.

All of them jumped up and ran over to us. "How is he?" Reign asked with so much emotion in his voice it broke my heart a little.

"His heart is beating again, and we are taking him up for a CT scan. Is there anything we need to be aware of allergies, past medical history or anything currently."

"No. He's healthy always has been and no allergies," Reign said with much more composure this time.

"I'll be back out when we know something. Berkley if you would like to change, I'm sure you can grab a pair of scrubs from the locker room," he said looking me up and down. He was right, I did need to change and probably shower real fast also. I had his blood all over me.

I turned and followed Dr. Smith through the doors and as soon as the doors were closed, he grabbed my arm and pulled me to the locker room and pushed me up against the wall and getting way to close for my liking.

"What are you wearing?"

"I went to a costume party. Please leave so I can shower and change." He didn't say anything, but his eyes darkened, and he leaned down to kiss me, but I turned my head.

"Leave me alone," I gritted out trying to move away from him, but his grip tightened.

"Oh, come on, you're dressed like that, and you don’t expect a little attention. If you ask me, you want way more than a kiss," he said as he brought his other hand to my neck and started trailing it down my chest. My flight or fight was kicking in and too bad for him I as more of the fight type. I brought my knee up and kneed him in the balls. He let go of me and doubled over.

"You b***h," he said and reached for me, but I moved to my left, and he gave chase catching me by my arm making us fall, with him on top of me. He was quick to move and straddled me and wrapped his hands around my throat.

"Now you don't have much to say," he said and laughed as he squeezed my neck cutting off my air.

Only when my eyes rolled back in my head did he let go and I sucked in as much oxygen as I could and he trailed his other hand down my chest again, but I had enough air to scream out. I just prayed that someone could hear me out there.

"Just shut up and take it like the slut you are," he said as he moved down my body and pushed my legs apart with his. He still had his hand on my throat and would squeeze and then let go. I was hitting him with my hands, but he didn't budge.

"Get off me," I screamed again but he just pushed my dress up higher.

"You turn down a date with me to go out like this and don't expect for some guy to want you." he said just as the door was thrown open and he was pushed off me in a second. I scrambled back and took deep breaths. I looked up to see Tate beating the hell out of him and Reign reached down and jerked me to my feet.

"Are you OK?"

I couldn't answer him as all the adrenaline was wearing off and all I could think was how close I was to being raped. He would have if these two wouldn't have come in here. I could feel the tears start to fall.

"Hey, you're OK. Your head is bleeding. We should probably have someone look at that." he said, and I brought my hand to my head and sure enough it was bleeding.

"Come on," he said and pulled me out of the room and when I turned to look behind me Tate was standing over Dr. Smith, and I wasn't sure if he was alive or not.

"We need to stop Tate. I don't want him to get in trouble," I finally managed to say.

"He's fine. He can handle himself."

The first bathroom we came to I went into and looked at my head. I had a nice little gash, but it wouldn't' require any stitches. Just a band aid. I washed my hands and stepped back out.

"It's fine. I just need a band aid. I really need to go back there and shower."

"You're leaving. Josh is on his way, and he is going to take all of you girls back to Ellie's house."

I just nodded at him, and he walked me back to the waiting room and sure enough there sat Josh.

"What the hell happened?" Mila asked as soon as she saw me.

"I hit my head. No biggie."

"Well let's go. The guys have decided that we need to go home." Ellie said.

Tate came storming through the ER doors and his hands were covered in blood. Ellie ran over to him. "What happened to you?"

He brushed her off and came over to me, "Are you OK?"

"I'm fine."

"I told you that outfit was too much. What the hell were you thinking?"

"I was thinking that I shouldn't be attacked because of what I'm wearing. I was thinking I should be able to go out with my friends and have a good night. I wasn't thinking hey I'm dressed like a slut please rape me," I yelled at him and everyone in the waiting room went quiet. The tears started again, and I was over it. I just wanted to go home now.

I turned on my heel and stormed out of the ER with Tate yelling at me to stop. It didn't take but about five seconds for Mila and Ellie to come up behind me and loop their arms in mine and lead me to the car without a word.

We got in the car and Josh took off. The three of us were sitting in the back and I finally broke down completely and just buried my head in my hands in my lap. Both girls just let me have my moment.

As soon as we pulled up to their house we got out of the car, and I realized how bad I looked, and Preslee was probably in there.

"Hey were is Preslee?"

"My brother came into town to hang with her for the weekend. They were staying at the hotel for the night."

"Let's get you in the shower and then a glass of wine," Mila said as we went inside.

Ellie showed me to the shower and said she would bring some clothes in for me. I told her to grab me one of Tate's shirts since she was so damn small hers weren't going to fit me. I started the shower and ripped the costume off me as fast as I could. I could see a bruise on my arm already forming and my neck was still red with his handprint. I didn't want to see it anymore, so I got in the shower and washed everything off me. I scrubbed my skin until it was red and raw. When I stepped out there were clothes on the counter and the clothes, I had thrown on the floor were gone.

I quickly dried and put on the clothes that Ellie had left for me and wrapped my hair up in a towel and walked out into the living room where the other two were at and they had also changed into jammies, and both were drinking wine.

"How are you feeling?" Ellie asked and Mila held out a glass of wine to me.

"Can I just have some water and I'm fine."

"Are you sure? I've been where you're at and don't you dare blame yourself. You did nothing wrong." Ellie said as she went to the kitchen.

"I could have though. I could have not worn what I did."

"No. Us girls should be able to wear what we want and not have some f*****g creep try and take advantage of us," Mila said.

"Have you guys heard anything about Ace?" I asked. I really wanted to know, and I wanted to stay with him even more, but I thought that might look a little too obvious.

"Nothing but what is going on with you and him?" Ellie asked.

"Nothing. I was just concerned for him." I told them and was thankful that the lights were dim because I could feel my face blush.

"Ok how about what do you want to happen between you and Ace?" Mila asked.

"Nothing." I quickly said but they both saw right through me.

"I don't believe you for a second. Girl you should totally go for it." Mila said and Ellie handed me the glass of water.

"I'm good, thanks."

"Seriously if you like him you should go for it." Ellie said.

"I can't." I told them looking down at my hands. I wanted to talk about this but didn't know how.

"Why can't you?" Ellie asked.

"I um he's, I just can't." I mumbled.

"Wait I'm picking up on something here. Berkley no judgement but," she said, and I cut her off.

"Look I haven't done more than kiss one boy. I didn't have the same upbringing that you all did and by the time I had the freedom to do what I wanted I was too focused on school."

"How in the ever-loving f**k did you get to be twenty-two and look the way you do and not have men lining up for you."

"Like I said I didn't have the same upbringing as you two. My mom made sure that I had to take care of her and that didn't leave a lot of time for me to do what I wanted."

"We didn't have a normal upbringing either. My parents tried to kill me," Ellie said.

"Ya and my dad wasn't the best and wasn't involved in my life but was up Dominics ass all the time and my mom was more concerned with how she looked then what I was doing."

"I know but my mom was a drunk and not the nicest. When she wasn't yelling at me for doing something wrong, she was passed out and puking on herself and someone had to take care of her. If I wasn't there, she would have choked on her own puke many times. I also didn't fit in with the people I went to school with. My father paid for my schooling, and he paid a hefty amount of child support that she used to keep plenty of booze in the house. I was last on her list of things when it came to needing things like clothes that weren't rags and shampoo and conditioner."

"I'm sorry Berkley. We didn't know any of that. Is that why you don't drink?" Mila asked.

"Yes. My biggest fear is that I will be her. I will get knocked up by some guy who is going to leave me, and I have to raise a baby on my own and turn into a raging alcoholic."

"You will only become that if you allow it. You are not your mother, not even close, but I'm glad that you shared that with us. It explains a lot about you honestly." Ellie said.

"Don't go all therapy on us. This is getting too deep for me. What we need to focus on is getting this girl laid." Mila said and they burst into laughter and started coming up with plans to get Ace's attention once he was better.