Meghan opened her eyes, slowly, the light hurt. She looked around and noticed her surroundings at once. The IV poles, the machines, the scratchy hospital gown against her skin. Tears welled up in her eyes. This could only mean one thing. Someone knew her secret. She felt a presence beside her, someone's cold hand holding hers. She looked over to see the man from the park. She sat up pulling her hand out of his grasp "why are you here" she asked. How did he get her here and how much did he know? She took a deep breath waiting for his answer.
Edward looked at her, trying to give her a reassuring smile but it came out like a crooked grin. Meghan laughed and Edward let out a shaky breath. "Meghan, I was walking past your house when I heard you scream. When I worried so I followed the sound, I climbed your tree and saw you in the window." Meghan's chest constricted. He saw her naked. Oh god! He continued "I know what's happened to you, you should have told someone. He needs to be put away and you need to be protected."
Meghan sat up in the bed and frowned. "What the hell do you know what I need" she snorted accusingly. Edward tried to reach out for her hand but she kept it at a distance. "No one know's what I've gone through, what he's done to me, what he's going to do to me once he finds out where I am and that you know" she said. The morphine bag was empty and her pain was coming back. She winced.
Edward pushed the call button for the nurse. "Listen, you don't have to go back, I can protect you, my family can protect you" he said as doctor cullen walked in.
"Meghan" he smiled. Edward got out of the chair and stepped back leaning against the wall as Dr. cullen started taking meghan's vitals. "Your lucky to be alive" Dr. cullen answered. Meghan nodded "thank you for what you did for me but I need to get out of here, I need to go back home." Carlise looked at Edward and Edward shrugged his shoulders. Carlise looked at meghan and frowned "I don't think that's the best idea" he said "your in a very abusive relationship and you need to get out while you still can" he added, staying calm for both Edward and meghan's sake. He went to a cabinet and took out another bag of morphine and attached it to meghan's iv.
"I'll be back later to check on you" he said, meghan grabbed his wrist before he could leave "so when do I get out" she asked. Carlise looked back at Edward than to meghan "by the end of the day" he promised. Meghan sat back. How was she going to explain this to mike. Before she could say anything mike came through the door into the room and stood at the foot of the bed. Edward took a few protective steps towards meghan. He was falling for this girl even though there was a good chance she wasn't falling for him. Edward sucked in his breath, staying silent. Mike glared at meghan and than looked to Edward. "Im here buddy" mike said not moving "so you can leave now, I can take it from here." Edward scowled and looked to meghan. Meghan grabbed Edwards hand, knowing that mike had no problem killing her in a hospital. Edward grasped her hand, seeing her face go from color to pale at mike's words.
Edward shook his head at mike "no I don't think im going anywhere" he said. Mike took some steps towards her on the other side of the bed ripping off the blanket covering meghan's body. Edward was pulling himself back mentally where he just really wanted to jump over the bed and break mike's neck.
"Let's go" mike ordered meghan. Meghan looked at him, if she didn't go it would get a lot worse. Edward came around as meghan shuffled off the bed to get up. Mike slapped her once she stood and Edward snarled grabbing mike's hand as he was about to hit her again "I hope you enjoyed that because you wont be touching her again" he said as he hit the nurse button on meghan's bed with the free hand. He looked over to meghan who was clutching her red cheek.
He looked back to mike, the first human who didn't look afraid of him. "Your going to leave this hospital and go home. Don't bother coming back here or even looking for meghan" he threatened darkly. Mike looked over to meghan and than to Edward and nodded. Edward let go of him and went to sit beside meghan on the hospital bed. Mike walked towards the door and stood at the entrance as two security guards walked in behind him "you cant run and hide forever meghan, you'll come back to me by yourself or I'll find you" he said as he got dragged out by his wrists.
Edward looked at meghan taking her hot cheek in his cool hand "he wont hurt you again" he whispered to her "I promise." Meghan nodded as Edward helped her back into the bed covering her with the blanket mike had ripped off. She smiled at him. Maybe he was a good guy she thought to herself as she watched him go back to the chair and sit beside her head. He smoothed the hair off her face. "Don't leave me" she whispered. Edward nodded, smiling. "I promise, I'll never be more than a arm's reach away." Meghan sighed closing her eyes as darkness engulfed her.
"That's a great idea carlise" Edward said leading against the wall in the hallway just outside meghan's room. He smiled. Carlise had offered for meghan to stay with them until she finds somewhere safe to settle down. They wanted to help her. Edward took carlise into a hug than pulled back when he heard meghan. "Edward" meghan whispered, waking up from her nap. Edward and carlise were at her side in a second. "Hey" he smiled sitting beside her "How was your nap?" Meghan smiled and sighed "wonderful, I actually thought this was all a dream but now I realize it isn't" she said taking her hand in his.
Carlise wrote some notes on her chart "I'll discharge you now, prescribe you some drugs for the pain and you can leave" he smiled at her. Everything hit meghan at once. She had nowhere to go. She could go to her dad's but than she'd have to explain everything and she had to energy for that. Tears brimmed in her eyes but Edward was there to wipe them away with his fingertips. She looked at him and he smiled "I want you to stay with me" he said. Her heart fluttered. She smiled "are you sure, I don't want to be a burden." He laughed "you wouldn't be a burden at all, I'd love having you stay with me and my family." she nodded. And he beamed, she said yes.
Meghan smiled as they rode through town. His Volvo was nice. She kept her eyes looking out the window. They passed her old house seeing Jacob walking through the door, fear engulfed her and she bit down on her lip. Jacob. Would mike send Jacob after her. She turned to Edward to get the thought out of her head. He looked over and smiled than placed his hand on her's. Before she knew it Edward had pulled up to a house, no, not a house. A mansion. The outside was practically all glass. It was stunning, she couldn't believe she was staying here. He parked in front of the entrance and rushed over to open the door for her.
He helped her out and up the stairs. He unlocked the door and leaded her into the open, bright living room and helped her sit on the sofa. She leaned back releasing a relaxed sigh. He stood in front of her "stay here" he said "im going to go get your prescription out of the car." And he was gone. She looked around the room at the glass, the Forrest surrounding the house was beautiful, luscious green. Before she could get a breath he was sitting beside her shaking two pain pills out of the bottle into his hand. He uncurled her hand and placed them on her palm than sped to the kitchen, human speed, to get a glass of water.
He came back with a glass and handed it to her in the other hand. He watched as she swallowed the pills than a few gulps of water and handed the glass back to him. "Do you want to see your room" he asked her not wanting to force anything on her. She nodded and he scooped her up, much easier than helping her walk up the flight of stairs and placed feet gently on the floor of her guest suite. She gasped, it was stunning. From the door the right wall was all glass giving her a nice view of the Forrest and the rest of the walls were a beautiful shade of rose pink. The carpet was white, almost snow white and in the middle of the room was a king sized white iron bed, the duvet on top was the shade of the walls, it looked so inviting. She looked at Edward than smiled. "This is beautiful" she said. He took her hand and led her to another door near the bed, a bathroom. It walls were white, a claw-foot tub was against one side, the toilet on the other side and a standing shower beside that. The sink had a pink bag of things on it. Meghan walked up, opening the bag, Edward stood beside her. She pulled out a few bottles and read the labels. Vanilla bean body wash, Vanilla bean shampoo and than the conditioner that went with it. She pulled a loofa out of the bag as well as a toothbrush and toothpaste. She put everything back in and turned to Edward.
"Thank you" she smiled "you didn't have to do this." He grinned on of his lopsided grins "I didn't, my sister's did that" he said leading her out of the bathroom to two closet doors. She was afraid to open it. "And they did this" he said opening the doors for her. She gasped at the sight. Inside was a very large, full closet. There was boxes on the top shelf, labeled hats, winter wear, and different stuff. She bit her lip as her eyes continued to gaze over the rest of the things, there was enough clothing on hangers to clothe a third world country and enough shoes to dress their feet. She looked at Edward and he chimed in "you were an excuse for them to go shopping. They had a blast." She looked down at herself "tell them I said thank you" she said running her fingertips over the hospital gown she was still wearing.
He smiled "you'll be able to tell them tonight" he said than grabbed her hands "why don't you have a bath or shower and get cleaned up than we can watch a movie or something" he said "whatever you want." Meghan nodded and pulled out a pair of dark blue skinny jean's and a light blue t-shirt than she went into the box on the top shelf marked lingerie and pulled out a matching set of ice blue panty's and a bra than smiled "I'll be out soon" she said walking to the bathroom. "Take your time" Edward answered watching her. He walked downstairs and up to the DVD collection carlise and esme kept and started to pick out some choices for her.
Meghan walked into the bathroom and shut it behind her. She went up to the bathtub and turned on the water so it was hot but not very. She stripped herself of the hospital robe and folded it up and put it on the tolite seat. She passed the mirror and stopped in front of it, looking over her body she gasped, she couldn't even see her skin color, her whole body was black and blue. Has Edward seen this? She took a few shuttered breaths and slipped into the large bathtub and turned off the water. She put her head back, resting it on the edge. She closed her eyes and relaxed. She opened her eyes a bit later and got out of the water that had turned cold.
She wrapped herself in a fluffy white towel that she was guessing Edward had left for her beside the bathtub. She dried herself off and hung up the towel on the back of the door. She got dressed and pulled the new hairbrush through her tangles than brushed her teeth. There wasn't a moment from when she went into the bathroom till now where she wasn't thinking of Edward. He had saved her. She was falling for him, hard. She smiled as she pulled out a small bottle of lush lip chap that one of his sister's had left on the counter of the sink and ran it across her lips. She stuck it in her pocket of her skinny jeans and made her way through the house downstairs, padding up to Edward who was lying on the couch with his eyes closed.
She sat on the edge and watched him. Was he sleeping? She leaned in, it was now or never, she brought her lips a few inches away from his and paused for a second, than she did it. She crushed her lips to his and his eyes flew open. She pulled back "oh god, im sorry" she said covering her mouth with her hands. He sat up on the couch and laughed. She glared at him, not understanding why he was laughing. He calmed down and looked at her "there's nothing to be sorry about. I've been waiting so long for you to kiss me, from when we met in the park.
" She smiled than he added "is that a new brand of lip gloss" he laughed. She pulled out the small metal tin from her pocket and handed it him "my favorite." He pulled her towards him and she flinched. He pulled back and she shook her head leaning on him "im sorry im still a bit jumpy" she said. He nodded "no need to apologize, I shouldn't of made sudden moves like that" he said taking her into his embrace as he leaned over picking up his selection of movies. She took out RENT from the pile and he smiled "I like that movie" he said and she nodded in agreement as he got up and put the movie in than joined her on the couch. She grasped his hand and they stayed like that the whole movie, her leaning on his shoulder and them holding hands.