Chapter 69
Why is she still asleep?”Worry consumes me as I look at Arizona. She looks nothing like my Blossom. She is bruised, bloody and malnourished.
“She has been through a lot. She has been starved and is severely dehydrated. Her cheek bone is broken, and her wrists are bruised and cut from being tied.” The doctor sits down beside me, I can see the worry on her face. I turn to look at Arizona. She looks so small without her baby bump.
“I drew some blood and gave her an internal examination...” she pauses, and my eyes graze across to hers. She doesn”t have to say what she found. I can tell by the look on her face.
Anger boils deep inside of me, fists balled to my side.
“Her blood work is clear, along with her swabs. She will be okay Keaton, she will heal from this.”
“Will she?” I drop my head, trying to hide the tears that creep over me. How do I tell her that because of him, she lost her babies.
I shake my head side to side.
Kyra”s hand is on my shoulder, and I take comfort that she is with me.
The sound of someone clearing their throat has me lifting my head and turning to look behind me. Kaleb stands in the door, and I can see the heartbreak etched into his expression.
“I”ll give you some time alone, I’ll be back in a couple of hours,” Kyra stands, her lips turned down as she looks at Arizona then slips past my brother.
“I am so sorry,” Kaleb just about manages as I stand, throwing myself into my big brother’s arms. This was not the life we planned. This was not what was supposed to happen. But life is a cruel mistress, sparing no one. I choke, his hand rests on the back of my head as he comforts me like a lost little boy and only then, do I let the tears I have been fighting, fall.