Chapter Two
Kayden's POV
I woke up in I white room to the annoying beep, beep of a heart monitor. At first I couldn't remember how I got there, but then all the horrible memories came back. I shot up straight in bed, forgetting about my battered body in my panic. I gasped as my body screamed in pain and I sunk back down, trying not to black out again.
"Easy there love. You're safe now." Came the gentle voice of a woman. I looked to my side and saw a police woman sitting in the chair next to my bed. My eyes darted around then, looking for any danger. " There is no one here but me sweetheart. I figured you wouldn't want any men around you right now, so I stayed with you and your doctor is a woman as well." She told me, placing a gentle hand over mine.
I pulled my hand away, not being able to handle her skin against mine right now. She got a sad look in her eye, but didn't try touching my hand again.
"My name is Officer Moira James and I need to ask you some questions that are going to be upsetting for you, but it needs to be done. Then I will leave you to rest, okay?" She asked gently and I nodded, knowing what was coming. The questions were horrible and I just wanted to sleep but I knew this was the only way to make sure my father and Rodney paid for what they did. So I answered all her questions as clearly as I could.
Just as she finished and was about to get up to leave, I grabbed her hand; "I-is that enough t-to make sure m-my father and Rodney g-gets life in p-prison?" I managed to stutter out. She gave me a sympathetic look, then told me something that would haunt me for years to come,
"I'm sorry, love but we only managed to catch and arrest your father. But the other guy jumped through your bedroom window and got away. Don't worry though, we have a warrant for his arrest and we have everyone looking for him as we speak."
I knew she was trying to reassure me, but I got a sickening feeling in the pit of my stomach that I will be seeing Rodney again. "C-can you p-please s-s-stay with me? I-I don't feel s-safe with him r-running around." I ask her softly.
She smiles and sits back down. "Sleep sweetheart. I will be right here when you wake up." She whispers and then gives me smile that is mixed with sadness.
I fell asleep to her quiet humming and her hand on mine. I felt safe with her, so I will deal with the touch.
In one night I had lost my best friend, my father and the little bit of trust I had left in humanity, but I will rise above it eventually. It might take me years to overcome this, but somehow, someway I will do it. For right now though, I needed rest so that I can at least heal physically. And with that thought I drift off to sleep.
I wasn't sure what my future would hold, but what I did know, was that I was forever changed by the horrifying incidents that happened to me in that house. For the next four years, I would be barely a shadow of myself, too scared to truly live my life, until he came along and changed everything.