Salvation

(Not Edited) How I couldn't breath

I started to stumble back into my desk, and my heart fell to my feet in fear. "David, please just go", I begged him, but he walked towards me.

His hands balled up in a fist. "No! Grace, you need to come home."

The fear and my heart felt like it would rip through my chest because it was beating so fast. "Please, David, I'm not coming home. You hurt me more times than I can count."

"I know, Grace, but I love you," he told me. "I can change", but I shook my head.

"You told me that for years David," I told him and the tears welled up in my eyes.

"So please just leave," I told him, trying to sound strong, but my voice wavered.

"Fine," he told me, and I thought he was going to leave, but he punched me, and I let out a cry of pain.

"David, please stop this", I begged him as I felt the blood run from my lip.

He threw me to the ground and hurriedly crawled under one of the desks.

"Not until you come back," he said, flipping the desk like it was nothing before sending a kick into my stomach. I let out a groan of pain, moving away from him, but he stood on my side, stopping me.

"You hurt me; you kept hurting me", I cried. "Why would I come back!"

"Fine, have it your way", he shouted in anger, and I stood up on shaky legs.

"Please stop, Da...." I got cut off by I punch to the face, and I stumbled back as I cried.

David was like an animal, no that's an insult to animals. Something new altogether. Just a monster.

He threw me through Nathan's glass office wall. I felt the glass cut my skin and dress. I rolled into the wall.

My body was breaking, and I let out a scream as I took out a big sharp piece of glass in my thigh. The blood was everywhere, and I started to feel weak.

He dragged me by the hair, making my headache and my eyes water. He threw me into the desk, send me flying, and I couldn't stop crying in pain as my blood was everywhere and I couldn't breathe because of the pain.

"David, I'm begging you, please stop", I begged with a breath, but he kicked me in the side; I rolled away from him with a groan.

He got on top of me, straddling me. He wrapped his blood-covered hands around my neck, and I started to kick and scratch at him like I had done not so long ago when he pressed a pillow to my face. He hit my head on the ground, and a ringing came to my ears. I felt a wetness on the back of my head, and I knew I was bleeding.

Suddenly David got pulled off me, and I saw Nathan in a blur as he tackled David to the ground. Nathan punched David in the face, and I heard a crack of bone. My head was pounding, and I couldn't breathe properly. I could feel familiar wetness, and I looked down to see blood coming still from my thigh and stomach.

I looked back at Nathan and David to see David getting the upper hand. Nathan had blood coming from his nose and cuts on his forehead. David, on the other hand, was a mess, his nose was bent at a weird angle, and his face was stained in blood.

David ran at Nathan, pushing him back into Nathan's office. My eyes started to blur, and my head feels back to the ground, but I looked back at them to see Nathan lying on the ground and David holding an object in his hand.

I cried over Nathan. It's my fault he wouldn't be in this mess if it wasn't for me.

David was panting, and he walked over to me. I forced myself to stand up even though the pain was excruciating.

"You little boyfriend couldn't take a beating," He told me with an evil chuckle, and I started to limp backwards.

"Now, Grace, I would have to say that this is all your fault," He told me as he reached in his waistband for something

"You could have saved your boyfriend and yourself if you had just come with me," he said, and I felt the tears of pain and guilt fall my face mixing with the fresh blood.

David pulled out a gun, and I stopped as the fear of God got put into me. My breath stuck in my throat.

"David, why are you doing this?" I asked as I saw Nathan's leg move, but I didn't react since David wasn't facing him.

"You can not be happy without me, Grace. You can only be with me, and if you are not with me, then you can't live," he told me, and I started to shake. He pointed the gun at me, and all I could think of was Nathan and everything we wouldn't get to do together.

We could never start a family or even go on a holiday together.

Nathan let out a groan making David growl. He cocked his gun and went to turn around. I couldn't let him shoot Nathan.

My heartbeat was racing as I jumped on David. We started to fight over the gun. My body weak, but I couldn't let him kill Nathan, and I didn't want to die.

He pushed the gun up at my throat, but I still didn't give up, and I pushed it to his neck. I didn't know who was winning then I heard a gunshot.

My eyes started to blur, and my body gave up as I felt David slump on top of me.

"No. No. No Grace," Nathan yelled out, his voice breaking. He rushed over, and I gave him a weak smile.

"I'm so sorry," I told him, and he pushed David off me as he cried.

"No, please stay with me", he yelled, and the lift door pinged, and I heard gasps.

"Phone an ambulance!" Nathan yelled at her as he sobbed. Rosie rushed to Nathan's side, and I could hear the ripping of fabric. I felt something tight being tied around my leg, and I let out a groan.

"I love you so much," I told him, wiping his tears, and I held his cheek, but I couldn't hold on anymore, and my hand dropped away from his face leaving my handprint in blood.

I took a breath then everything went black.