You try to listen past the loud heartbeat in your ears, but you can’t mate out a damn word

Just when it seems it's about to get louder, it goes deadly silent for a beat, followed by a sharp sound of metal pinging off of metal. A bullet? you didn't hear a gunshot, but it's so hard to hear past your roaring heartbeat.

Eyes wide, you state up at the hatch, your nerves in tatters as you hear someone jump back up on the ladder of the trailer.

A sob rackets up your throat, muffled by your hand as you hear the man approach the hatch.

If he wants you to come out, he's going to have to come get you, and there's no way you were going without a fight. You would sooner slit your throat than go back to that house. Go back to Xavier.

The hatch creaks open. You’re on the verge of fainting, until you see his face.

As eyes widen further, the fear quickly replaced with disbelief.

One blue eye so light, it’s nearly white, with a wicked scar slashing right down through it. And one brown eye so dark it appears obsidian . You can sill see his features clearly. And right now, utter relief is staring right back at you.

"Zade?"

"Fuck, baby, stay right there. Don't you fucking move?

”they’re in there?" a voice calls out urgently, Her footsteps climbing the trailer now as well. But you’re too blinded by shock to pay attention. Zade drops down into the trailer a second later.

A whimper bursts from your throat, nearly choking on relief as you stumble towards him, colliding in a tangle of limbs.

He immediately lifts you into his arms, your legs circling his waist before he collapses to his knees, holding you so tightly that you can hardly draw in a breath.

The sobs pouring from your throat. They rack your body so profoundly that your bones rattle from the force.

"I'm here, little mouse, I'm here" he chants. "Fuck, you're so cold!" His voice breaks and he rocks you both, vibrations rolling through him as he fights to keep it together.