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I walked down the hallway making sure that my feet made enough noise so as not to startle my Babe. I know my men will take care of all the paperwork and all the alibis. The whole scene is made easier by the lack of witnesses.
I enter Bobby's office to see him gently tending to my Babe. She is shivering like she's been in the deep freezer for the past ten minutes. I need to hold her and make her feel warm again, but I could feel her struggling to get away from me. That small little push hurt more than any bullet would ever did. Sorry Babe, I can't let you go right now. We both need this. I can't have her afraid of me. I can't have her wanting to leave me. I need to keep her safe.
I picked up her shivering form against Bobby's protests and strode to the elevator. I need to get her upstairs in our bed where she can rest peacefully. She always said that being on seven felt like a safe little cocoon. I know she loves the smell of my sheets. I think Ella made a choco lava cake for her, I bet she'd like that right now.
I can feel myself losing control as we get to seven. She is struggling against me, but I don't think I could release her from my arms if I tried. Regan tried to take my very life away from me today. The bastard hurt my Babe. I see the thin scar on her neck and I can feel the urge again. I feel the need to bash his dead body in so that even in his afterlife he can be a miserable sod.
We get to the bedroom and I finally release her. She steps away from me to the other side of the room where the armchair resides and breaks down into giant sobs. She is crying so hard that she can't breathe. I want to go to her. I want to hold her. But I don't. I know that she needs time to deal with this. She's always known what I am capable of, but today she saw it firsthand. She saw the reality of the man she shares her bed with every night. She saw the truth of a soldier, a man without a soul.
I would let her leave, but the moment she signed on for a relationship with me, that option was no longer available. I know that if she steps out of the safety of Rangeman, her life will be in danger. None of my enemies would hesitate to kidnap and torture her just to get to me.
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A/N: Ranger can't let her go now even if she wants to break up cause she'd be in danger. Hope that is clear in this chapter