Queen Of The Plains ( The Matriarchy Series Book 2)✔️

🦃 Chapter Twenty Nine🦃

JAMES' POV

I paced up and down the corridor that led to my bedroom as I waited for the doctor to finish checking up on Lulu. She had passed out in my arms as I carried her to my car and I'd driven her to my place instead of the hospital. I knew she wasn't hurt anywhere physically since she wasn't bleeding when I picked her up but maybe she had some internal trauma that I couldn't see. Everyone else was in the living room waiting to get feedback from the doctor.

Her scared crying voice kept ringing in my ears and the sound of those bullets hitting her car would not stop replaying themselves in my head. When she had called me, I had been with my dad, Mark and my uncle Sam in the valley. Mark had been helping me out when my dad and uncle had decided to pay us a visit and see the kind of work we did down there. As soon as I'd picked up the phone and she'd called out my name, I knew that something was wrong. When I heard the bullets I shut down everything going on at the valley, put everyone in the trucks and found my way to her with the location she'd shared with me.

Finding her car there riddled with bullets had to be the worst sight I'd ever come across. I thought she was dead when I saw all those bullet holes on side of her car especially towards the front seats.

By the time we got there there was no trace of the shooter. I thought Lulu was dead when we got there but my heart had immediately surged with relief when I heard her scream after we tried to break the car window to get to her. I had no idea how much bulletproof cars cost but I thanked the heavens that Lulu could afford one for it had saved her life. When she was finally in my arms, dusty and a little bruised but otherwise okay, I'd breathed in relief. My queen was okay and if she hadn't been I'd have gone crazy. She would have died without me telling her how much I loved her. She'd whispered it to me on phone before we were cut off but I hadn't gotten a chance to say it back. She was safe now and I had a second chance and I was not going to waste it. I would tell her as soon as she allowed me to.

Doctor Ezra walked out of my room and I immediately stopped my paving approaching him.

"How is she Ezra?"I asked him wringing my hands nervously.

"She has a mild concussion for when her head hit the steering wheel. Other than that she's okay. She may suffer some trauma because of the ordeal she's just suffered but that will only be mental. I suggest you be there for her when she wakes up. In case she asked for any medicine just give her paracetamol for the headache. I gave her a sedative so she'll sleep through the night. She will be okay James, Lulu is a strong girl."He replied patting my back and walking away.

I stared at my door for a good five minutes before walking in. I never thought that the first time I'd see Lulu in my bed would be under such circumstances. She looked like she belonged right there, covered my in huge blanket that my mom had insisted I buy, her head lying on the pillows Ruth had bought for me after deeming me incapable of choosing the right ones. Ruth had been waiting for us when we got to my place, since Mark had called her and informed her of the situation. She had changed my unconscious girlfriend into one of my t-shirts and cleaned up her dusty face. I'd been unable to do anything but carry her to my bed and stare at her like a creep. I didn't even know who had called Ezra, I only remembered getting pushed out of the room to give him some privacy to check on her.

I sauntered to the side of the bed and slowly sat next to her. She looked so fragile at the moment, like one wrong move and she'd crack under pressure. I knew she was stronger than that, as proven by the ordeal she had just survived but I was still scared for her. I ran my fingers over her hair and smoothed the overgrown curls out of her face. I knew she hated when her hair grew too long and would cut it as soon as it started falling over her forehead. She was so beautiful and precious, my heart broke just thinking that I'd almost lost her.