To Hate My Stepbrother

Ava’s POV

Our parents rushed out of their room and I sought solace in my moms arms as I cried, “Mason, he’s…” I stuttered but whatever I wanted to say got caught in my throat and I couldn’t even make out the right words.

“I can’t lose him, mum, I can’t.” I cried as Danny drove as fast as he could to the hospital while Mason laid on my mother and my lap.

Stroking his hair lightly, I leaned in to kiss his hair and sniffled. How could he be so stupid, how could he have charged towards Chad knowing that there were other armed men around?

I was mad at him but I was also scared of losing him. Hurriedly, Mason was rushed to the ER and after a while the doctor came out to finally talk to us after asking him if Mason would be alright for the umpteenth time.

“He’s in shock right now,” he spoke and my sob became louder as I hugged Danny. I can’t lose Mason, not now, not ever.

“But he’s going to be fine, we stitched the wound and we’re lucky it was just a graze.” He told us but it felt as though what he said went in one ear and came out of the other.

Mason had been laying down in there without talking and they expected me to believe he’s fine?

Pulling me into her, my mother stroked my hair and consoled me while I constantly filled her ear with words about how I couldn’t lose Mason.

“You won’t lose him, trust me. I promise.” She held me as the doctors told Danny that Mason was just sleeping and he needed to rest.

Danny walked back to us and told us to give Mason some time and instead of waiting here we could go to the police station to give our statements.

Agreeing with him, I asked for a moment with Mason first and I was glad that they gave that to me. Standing by his bedside, I held his hand and leaned in to kiss it.

“I’m glad you’re okay.” I sniffled before kissing him again and after a while of watching him sleep peacefully, Danny, my mother and I all drove to the police station.

We got in and I saw Chad in handcuffs and anger surged through me like hot lava as the memories of what happened back at my house played back in my head.

That son of a bitch!

Charging towards him, I slapped him as hard as I could before pushing him and almost hit his head hard on the hard wall behind him.

“How dare you?” I yelled, the tears dropping down my face freely as I thought about the many ways that I could’ve lost Mason today.

“How dare you try to hurt him?” I sniffled, “how dare you try to make me a widow even before I got married?!” I hit him again.Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.

I had no idea that I’d taken one of the cops’ batons to hit Chad with when Danny and my mother stopped me. I was already causing a scene but I didn’t care because at this point Chad was disgusting to me.

He irritated me and I just want him out of my life and it doesn’t make me a bad person to wish that he was the one dead instead of Khalid.

Stopping me from causing even more scenes, the police asked for my statement and I told them everything I knew about Chad.

I’d thought that he was a good person at first because of how helpful he always seemed but then he started stalking me, he would cause a scene in the office because I rejected his offer to be his girlfriend.

I told the cops about how he was a fraudster and he’d almost made Mason’s company go bankrupt. I told them everything about how he’d kidnapped me and asked Mason to sign over the company to him.

From how we got multiple restraining orders against him but he still came to the company to take me to how he barged into my home today to hurt my husband to be.

When I finished talking, the cops asked Danny and my mom about theirs and they gave their own statements to the cops too. It was then I knew that our parents were the one who’d called the cops on Chad and his gangs.

Our statements were all taken and a case was opened against Chad with lots of charges like robbery, kidnap, endangerment, fraud and some more.

While we were talking to the COP I got a call from the hospital telling me that Mason had woken up already and without wasting any more time we all went back to the hospital.

Opening the door to his wardroom I couldn’t hold back my tears as I placed my head on his chest and soaked his chest with my tears.

“You scared me, I thought I lost you,” I cried, sniffling as I held him tighter than I was holding him already.

Mason let out a painful wince and I immediately released him. Seeing him in so much pain makes me want to go back to the police station and strangle Chad to death but I was also glad that he’s fine.

Laughing and crying at the same time, “you just asked me to marry you, how can you think of dying?” I hit him gently before telling him not to ever think of dying after he’d asked me to get married to him.

The doctors laughed and I had no idea that we had company until the room was filled with laughter, “the worst is over and Mason is fine now.” The doctor spoke after checking up on him and there couldn’t have been better news.

Our parents were glad that Mason was okay and after telling him about the statement we’d gone to give at the station they sought to give us some space to ourselves.

God, I love him too much to have lost him to the cold hands of death.