CHAPTER 79

Gabriel

I got to my hands and knees and spit blood onto the grass.

“Gabriel, don’t move.”

“Fuck that. I’m getting out of here.”

I had no other thought but to get away. The threat was gone but I still needed to move.

“I’ll help but stop trying to do it by yourself. Come on.”

She placed an arm under my shoulder. It hurt and I sucked in a loud breath.

“Don’t stop,” I told her. “Get me out of here.”

“Your dorm?”

“No.”

I leaned against her and got my feet beneath me, then stumbled and went back down. It fucking hurt but I couldn’t tell you where at this point.

The next try I was able to stay upright, if unsteadily.

“I have a place if you can climb stairs.”

“K.” It was the best I could do.

I don’t know where she led me until we entered a side door into the school rotunda. She went to the stairs that took us up to the library. It was still early enough for the library to be open, but I only heard silence and I didn’t see anyone around.

I couldn’t handle the climb and knew it. She moved past