Guarded heart

CHAPTER 1. Family meetings

LISA'S POV

"Goodnight Emma" I say tucking her into bed and giving her a goodnight kiss.

"Good night mummy" Emma says before yawning. I tuck a stray stand of her very dark brown hair that people often mistake it for black hair behind her ear. Then I head out making sure the night light is on to light up the princess room.

I head downstairs and pass Jade on my way.

"Fancy a cuppa?" I ask.

"No your okay thanks I'm going to pack my things ready to visit my family tomorrow. Beth agreed to come on duty tonight so I can set out at 2am to catch my flight" Jade says.

"Okay I hope you enjoy the time with your family. Talking of which I need to ring my brothers before going to sleep myself" I say.

"Okay goodnight Lisa" Jade says.

I continue downstairs and head to the kitchen. It's the only room I don't like in my house as its not summers and Seans kitchen. But it's big enough for me and Emma as well as the bodyguards. I didn't want a huge house like my parents or Seans and Summers, but I still wanted a biggish house with a huge garden for Emma. I made sure to move between my parents as well as Summer and Seans, Since I'm always around my parents or with Summer when I'm not working.

As I make myself a nice hot chocolate, I debate redecorating the kitchen from yellow to green. It doesn't need it but I'm bored of the colour it was done three years ago when I decided to move into my own home.

Once I've made my drink I decided to go sit in the garden and watch the sunset while I ring Sean and Ryan.

I pulled our group chat up which also included Summer and luke and pressed the video chat button as I took my seat on the sun lounger.

"Hey Lisa, can I call you back in a minute. I'm just getting Skylar and Dennis into bed" Summer says being the first one to answer.

"Yeah, that's fine I mainly wanted to speak with my brothers anyway" I say as Ryan cuts in saying "Hello my Queens".

"Well it's bye from me for a moment" Summer says then hangs up.

"Oh! Family conference call on a Sunday night" Luke says joining in.

"What? haven't we got a family meeting tomorrow morning?" Sean then says answering his phone.

"Yes and that's what I want to talk about. Any idea why mum and dad have called a family meeting once all the kids are at preschool or school?" I ask.

"No idea there keeping it top secret I can't even trick mum to slip up" Ryan says.

"I've no, idea either I even took dad to the golf course today in hope of finding out before you both but he wouldn't budge! That's sixs hours of my life wasted on gold!" Sean says which makes me and Ryan laugh.

"They never call family meetings you don't think one of them are sick do you?" I ask.

"Don't fret, I don't think it's anything like that they seem excited not sad lately" Ryan says

"Yeah I agree, they definitely seem more excited about whatever it is" Sean says

"I just don't have a good feeling about this" I say

"I'm sure it will be okay" Luke says.

"Okay, Sean ask Summer does she still want me to take Skylar into school tomorrow?" I ask.

"Summer and me spoke earlier. Summer will come with you while I take Dennis to preschool. Then we will all meet at mum and dad's straight afterwards" Sean says.

"Me and Ryan will be there for 9am" Luke says.

"Okay then" I say.

"Anyway tell us how much in total did you raise for the cake raffle this month?" Ryan asks.

"I raised £508 which is going to Dementia UK. Next month will be to raise money for Cancer research" I say.

"Damn! It's really taking off. Who was the lucky winner this time?" Sean asks

"Some school girl who happened to buy 1 ticket with the remaining of her pocket money after buying a milkshake. She is only 12 years old and her mum had to call me back when I rang, because her daughter was crying with joy" I say.

"That's so sweet" Luke says.

"Yes I know" I say.

"Who is picking this months 'We Thank You' winner?" Sean asks.

"Mum is I will be dropping the box round tomorrow with the letters for her to choose from. Then I will announce it Wednesday" I say.

"Please let me choose next months!" Luke says.

"Okay just remind me nearer the time" I say.

"Sorry I need to go, Summer is yelling for me to help her" Sean says

"Okay, I will see you in the morning at 8am" I say.

"Okay night" Sean says hanging up as Ryan and luke shout "Bye".

"How long has Emma been in bed?" Ryan asks.

"About 10 minutes before I rang you all up" I say.

"If your bored we can pop over for a hour if you" Luke says

"Nah, it's alright I just wondered if anyone had any idea what mum and dad have called this family meeting for. Im going to have a bath before getting my head down for the night once I've finished my hot chocolate anyway" I say.

"In that case we will say goodnight as well as we were debating a film before you rang us" Ryan says.

"Okay, night I will see you both in the morning" I say.

"Night" Ryan says while luke says "sweet dreams honey".

With that I hang up the phone.

CHRIS POV

"I'm arresting you on suspision of assault with actual bodily harm.

You do not have to say anything. But, it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence" I say as I place handcuffs on a women I'm guessing to be mid 30s blonde hair who is refusing to give over her name. After she punched some bloke in the car park of asda at 5am.

"Let me go!" the women is screaming while Nathan is saying. "mam please calm down" as we get her into the back of the police car.

"You can't do this to me, he stole my parking spot!" she shouts.

"The whole car park is nearly empty" Sarah says.

"Tell me about it, just the way I wanted to finish the shift" I say as Ellie and Joe is dealing with the injured bloke.

"This is Dispatch, are there any available units to attempted burlgery in progress" we hear on the radio.

"Nathan let's rock and roll" I say.

"Dispatch this is PC 131 Walker Go ahead" I say as me and Nathan head back to our patrol car.

LISAS POV

I woke up at 3am unable to sleep after enougher few hours tossing and turning. So I decided get up and make a coffee, only the milk had gone off since last night. Great I thought to myself.

It was Only 6:30am so I left a note for Beth and Josh saying I'd be back with half hour with fresh milk. I knew they would be up come 7am and I felt like I'd survive half hour without my bodyguard, I also knew they wouldn't mind me leaving Emma asleep while I grab some milk. With that in mind, I headed off to the shops.

As I drove a few streets down, approaching my nearest supermarket suddenly I'm being turned over in my car. As I look and scream with freight, I see a police car with its flashing lights has crashed into the side off me sending my car to lose control. I've slammed on the breaks and I'm holding the steering wheel for dear life praying mentally while still screaming. Suddenly the car rolls over and has finally stopped but I'm upside down with a air bag in my face. I wiggle just enough to get my phone out my pocket but it take a few minutes to get it.

"Are you okay?" I hear a bloke shout. I turn to look out the window and see its Chris who is a regular in the cafe dressed as a police officer by my window.

"Chris?" I say.

"OMG Lisa we are so sorry are you okay?" Chris says seeing its me.

"I think so, I need to get out will the door open?" I ask.

Chris trys to open the door while saying "Is anything hurting?".

"My head feels a little funny, but I think it's because I'm upside down" I say.

"Okay well stay still help is on the way, I'm going to see if any of the other doors will open" Chris says.

"I didn't know you were a police officer" I say, while thinking this past year he comes in the cafe regularly and I never this dispite we talk often.

"Yeah, I thought I said" Chris says while trying the door behind the drivers door.

"Lisa my colleague PC Cole is going to put through the passengers window, don't be alarmed it's so we can try open a door to get to you" Chris says.

"Was anyone else hurt?" I ask suddenly realising there could be others hurt.

"No, it was just us and your car in the collision" Chris shouts as I hear the passenger window smashing as it goes through.

"Hi Lisa, I'm sorry about crashing into you and your car" PC Cole says as we hear sirens approaching.

"I need to ring Summer, to get her to get my daughter" I say suddenly remembering Emma is due to wake up soon.

"We can do that, while the fire crew break you free" PC Cole says.

"No its okay, I've got my phone here so I can ring my family" I say unlocking my phone screen. I pull up summers number as a fireman says "Hi Lisa, I'm Ben and we will have you out of here in no time".

When did the fire crew turn up I think to myself.

"Okay do what needs to be done, I don't care about the car just please get me out as fast as possible" I say.

"Don't worry, the paramedics are just arriving" Ben says.

"Where did Chris go?" I ask.

"I'm still here" I hear Chris say from I'm assuming behind Ben.

"I've unlocked my phone and got Summers number up. Please ring her and get her to get Emma for me" I say passing my phone to Ben.

"I will just do as everyone else says and we can get you out as soon as possible" Chris says

"Okay" I say as I hear more sirens arriving.

CHRIS POV

I look at Nathan who looks as pale as a ghost. "You okay?" I ask.

"I didn't see her, I honestly thought it was clear we didn't even have the sirens on yet it's a blind spot coming out of that road, I should have put them on" Nathan says.

"It was a accident, you didn't do it on purpose! Now let me ring Lisa's family for her and then I will come back to you" I say.

"I should do it" Nathan says.

"No! Your not thinking straight as your in shock, I will ring them" I say.

Nathan nods his head yes, with that I walk back a little to have a little quite, well as quite as can be as I start to ring Summer as requested of Lisa.

RING RING RING RING RING RING

"Hi Lisa, why are you ringing so early your not due until 8am" I hear a women says as she answers the phone.

"This is PC Walker, may I ask who I am speaking with please" I ask.

"Summer King, why do you have Lisa's phone?" Summer asks.

"Lisa has asked me to ring you, she was in a car accident and currently trapped within the car" I start to say

"What are they okay? Is Emma and Lisa okay?" Summer starts shouting

"Lisa seems to be okay just trapped within the car. She asked me to get you to go get her daughter Emma for her" I say.

"Where is Emma?" Summer asks frantic.

"Not in the car, she said she was due to wake up so I'm assuming in bed" I say.

"Emma wasn't with Lisa? Wasn't anyone with her not even a bodyguard?" Summer asks.

"No, it was just Lisa she was driving her car and our police car collided with hers while we were on our way to an emergency. That's all I know" I say.

"She ditched her bodyguards again" Summer says.

"Summer why does Lisa need a bodyguard?" I ask wondering if there was any threat or danger to Lisa immediately we should be aware of.

"I don't have time to explain, I will have my husband go get her daughter, tell me where you are because if men start touching Lisas body trying to help her, she will freak out your need me there to calm her down" Summer says.

"Okay, that bit of information will help and I can pass that on. We are by the big asda along canoe Street" I say.

"I'm on my way, tell Lisa I will be there in 15 minutes" Summer says.

"I will" I say then the phone gets hung up.

I stop the nearest fireman to me, "Be warned, I've just spoken with someone who knows Lisa they said she freaks out when men touch her body, going from experience I'd say either domestic abuse or rape victim so let's be mindful of this" I say.

"Damn it there's only two male paracemdics on scene at the moment, enougher crew should be here any minute let's hope there female" The fireman says.

"Someone called summer said they will be here within 15 minutes and can help keep Lisa calm" I start to say as I hear Lisa start to scream. "That hurts stop touching me!" to which both me and fireman rush back over to the car.

"Lisa, its Chris again are you okay?" I ask.

"My leg hurts and he won't stop touching it! If I wasn't trapped and clearly hurt I'd drop kick his ass for not getting his hands off me!" Lisa shouts.

"I spoke with Summer, she said her husband will get Emma and she is coming straight here. How about I get Summer on the phone to talk with you while the paramedic does his job" I say.

"He can do his job, he just needs to do it quickly because it hurts" Lisa says.

"I can give you pain relief but, I need to get the bleeding under control on your leg" The paramedic says to Lisa

"I know, I'm sorry but it hurts and I don't like being touched by men" Lisa says starting to cry as I start to ring Summer again. She answers on the first ring.

"Hello" I hear the Summer say sound worried.

"Summer it's PC Walker again are you about to drive?" I ask.

"No i have a driver driving me" Summer says.

"Brilliant, I'm going to put you on speaker while the paramedic trys to get the bleeding on Lisas leg under control can you talk to her and try keep Lisa calm?" I ask.

"Yes, How badly is the leg?" Summer asks.

"I'm not sure, I'm putting you on speaker now" I say pressing the speaker button and I passing it to the fireman to keep close to Lisa.

"Lisa it's Summer are you okay?" Summer says

"I'm fine, it's Emma I'm worried about, I left to get milk for her breakfast and my morning cuppa. She must be awake now and wondering where I am" Lisa says through her tears.

"Sean was on the phone with Beth as I left, he was frantically getting ready to get Emma don't worry about anything else just focus on you" Summer says.

"Lisa it's all bloody men and I've got a paracemdics hand on my leg! Tell them I need a female doctor! I can't have a bloke touch me" Lisa says.

"Lisa they won't hurt you there only there to help you, I'm on my way I promise your okay" Summer says.

"I know it's just the thought of men touching me it's makes me cringe still" Lisa says crying.

"Lisa remember you are a strong ass women and can do this. Remember your can get through anything" Summer says.

"Okay we are good to get her out" A fireman says.

"We need two minutes to finish this dressing to stop the bleeding" the paramedic says as enougher ambulance arrives and thankfully I see one is a female.

I head straight over to get the female paracemdic to be by Lisa's side.

SUMMERS POV

"Summer there about to get me out now where are you?" I hear Lisa saying through tears.

"Lisa, we are just pulling up, I will be by your side before you know it" I say undoing my seat belt.

"Tell Lisa, Beth just messaged to say don't worry about Emma she is happily eating chocolate spread on toast" Nick say.

"Did you hear that Lisa? Nick said Emma is eating chocolate spread on toast and is happily unaware of what's going on here" I say getting out the car. I look towards the car which looks like a write off. I see people surrounding someone on a stretcher. It must be Lisa I think to myself as I start running over.

"Mam, you can come through" A police women says stopping me.

"That's my sister in law, she need me! Look I'm on the phone to her" I plead showing my phone.

"Let her through" A policeman with a cut to his head says. Other than that he seems okay. he is roughly 6ft foot tall Broad shoulders and a lean looking body to match. He has light brown hair with blue eyes.

"PC Walker?" I ask thinking his voice sounds like the policeman I spoke with.

"Yes, you must be Summer. Please come with me. It seems Lisas leg is broken but she refuses to tell anyone where anything hurts. We just managed to have a female parademic take over her care in hope that will help" PC Walker says as I follow him to Lisa.

"It's nothing personal ever since she was attacked 6 years ago she is frightened of men and there's alot of men here" I say looking around to see 75% of the emergency services are indeed men.

"I figured as much from our brief conversation. I'm guessing either domestic abuse or a rape situation" PC Walker says.

"The second one while at college" I say a little quite as we near Lisa.

"I understand and it's understable why Lisa is clearly distressed" PC Walker says.

"Lisa can we give check you over in the ambulance?" I hear the female paramedic say as there getting Lisa into the back of the ambulance.

"Only you no men" Lisa says.

"It's okay Lisa I'm here" I say running the little distance between us to Lisa.

"Summer" Lisa shouts out.

"I'm right here" I say.

"Please can you just stand out here while we check Lisa over" The paramedic lady says.

"No i want her with me please" Lisa begs.

"Okay but take a seat and don't get in the way" The parademic bloke says

CHRIS POV

Once Summer is with Lisa, I go back to Nathan who is currently talking with the Sargent.

"I didn't see her I swear" Nathan keeps saying

"Sarge, I didn't even see the other car until it was to late. That bend is just dangerous. The other driver would of seen our lights to late" I say

"Chris, I was just telling that to Nathan. I think he is suffering with shock. He needs to go over to the hospital to be checked out and you defiently need to go get that head seen to" Callum our Sargent says.

"It's just a small cut, nothing I can't handle" I say.

"To hell with that your do as your told!" I hear my dad's voice. I turn around look where he is and see him approaching us.

"Dad what are you doing here?" I ask.

"Benny told me as I was starting my shift that he heard you had been involved in the crash. So he brought me straight here. Now do as your told and go to the hospital son" my dad says.

"Damn it who told benny?" I ask.

"Nevermind that you should of guessed when it was my station crew that arrived, you know they all see you like a nephew so of course they would call me you fool. And you call yourself a cop! Clearly that's a worse head injury if you cant solve that little mystery" my dad says while Callum my Sargent is trying not to laugh but I can hear him chuckling away behind me.

"But its your birthday and I told uncle lance to keep it quite" I say.

"Yeah and what a birthday surprise this is, now if you want to make it better you and Nathan better be on route to the hospital in the next ten minutes. Otherwise I will be taking over them handscuffs to use on the pair of you while cuffing you down in the fire truck and personally taking you both!" my dad says.

"I'm going already, but no need to worry its just a small scratch" I say.

"Thanks Steve, happy birthday by the way" Callum says behind me as Nathan joins my side and we walk over to the ambulance awaiting us.

"I forgot how ruthless your dad can be when he gets serious" Nathan mumbles next to me.

"I never forget! That's why I tried keeping this from him" I mumble back.

"How do you know Lisa anyway?" Nathan asks.

"She owns the cafe 'Kings Delights' and I'm always in there when I can't be bothered to cook, she also does this amazing chocolate cake. Don't you remember me telling you about the women who raffles off cakes raising money for charity?" I ask.

"No way, it's that women?" Nathan asks.

"Yeah, Only yesterday she raised just over £500 for dementia UK. It's rumoured that next month cake will be for Cancer research" I say

"Now that just makes it worse. It had to happened to such a nice women" Nathan says.

"Don't worry, I've only a scratch and I will check in on her when we get to the hospital. From what I can gather it's looks like just a broken leg so far. But she refused to admit she was injured at all" I say.

"Why was that?" The parademic who happened to bandage Lisa leg suddenly asks as we reach the ambulance.

"Two words Rape victim" I say.

"No way!" Nathan says

"Oh my god. She is that Lisa King" The parademic says as he helps me climb into the ambulance.

"What women?" Nathan asks.

"You know the Lisa King that was raped at college by her ex boyfriend, fell pregnant with his child who then had his crazy parents harass her and try to kidnap her just before the baby was born. It was revealed in court they were going to kill her off and deliver the baby themselves since his dad was a doctor" The paramedic says.

"I should of worked it out sooner myself no wonder she freaks out with men touching her" I say.

"Yeah now I understand why she screamed for me to hurry up and stop touching her" The paremdic says.

"Wow to go through all that, then still be humble raising money for charity each month that's one hell of a women" Nathan says.

"It sure is" I say while thinking how I never linked it up myself. We have spoken on and off when I've been in the cafe. Lisa has always held a smile and even had her daughter in the cafe sometimes who likes to give all the other children that come in lolly pops. I always found them so cute together a perfect mummy and daughter duo looking after there customers. The little girl even has a mini apron wrapped around her waist like her mums.

"Okay as much as I want to say you both look okay, we still need to get you checked over up the hospital and get the all clear considering you were in a car accident" the paramedic says inturrputing my thoughts

"Yeah we know" Nathan says.

"I'm ready to go when you are" I say

HEY EVERYONE. SO I STARTED WRITING THIS BOOK AS THE FOLLOW ON STORY FOR LISA'S STORY, BYT I HATED HOW I ORGINALLY STARTED TO WROYR IT OUT. THEREFORE I DELETED IT ALL AND RESTARTED IT. I'VE GOT A FEW CHAPTERS WRITTERN ALREADY. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE ALREADY READ LISA'S STORY I KNOW HOW MUCH YOU ALL WANT LISA TP HAVE A HAPPY ENDING. THEREFORE I REALLY WANT THIS BOOK TO BR REALLY LOVELY. I'M GOING TO REALISE THREE CHAPTERS AND ID LOVE FOR EVERYONE INCLUDING PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW LISA'S FULL BACKGROUND AND THERE IS BRIEF MENTIONS OF WHAT'S HAPPENED BEFORE TO GIVE ME YOUR OPINIONS AS THE FIRST THREE CHAPTERS GIVE A ROUGH IDEA GOW THE BOOK WILL PLAN OUT. ID LOBW TO KNOW IF YOU LIKE IT OR IF I SHOULD CHANGE THE INTIAL PLOT. SO PLEASE COMMENT AND LET ME KNOW. I WILL GIVE IT 1-2 WEEKS BEFORE I START TO REGULARLY UPDATE OF YOU ALL LOVE IT. IF NOT THEN I SHALL SCRAP IT AND START AGAIN.