Arden:
Her legs wrapped tightly around my waist when I pulled her into my arms. Her sobs awakened something in me that I had only ever seen hints of in my lifetime. The way her helplessness bled through to me as I carried her to my car and the way her sobs never stopped on the way to the hospital destroyed me.
"Listen to me, Angel. When we get to the hospital, they are going to ask you a lot of questions that you may be uncomfortable answering, but I need you to be honest with them about everything Ben has ever done to you. There is something else, though, sweet love, and I need you to know that I am telling you this as a start of not keeping anything from you ever again. If I get to my son before the police do, I plan to kill him." Her grip on me tightened, but she could not stop her c
