Oceans Submerged: Book Two, the Oceans Series by M. a. Deolmos Read Free Book Online Page A

relax.” He gently removed the IV needles still stuck into my hands and arms.
    Ocean used the alcohol pads to rub away the sticky residue from the tape that held my IV’s in place. I looked like a heroin addict. My arms and top of my hands were black and blue with several puncture wounds, I guess from moving the IV’s around.
    I could feel the heat from his eyes when he would look at my face trying to read me, but I stood my ground by not making eye contact with him. That resolve I had last night to let him dish out his anger and hate towards me for what I did dissolved and disappeared as soon as he called me Zena this morning.
    “Hey, you okay baby?”
    At least he still called me baby .
    Instead of speaking, I nodded my head. I was afraid of what would come out of my mouth once I opened it.
    In absolute silence he cleaned my wounds, washed my entire body, including my lady parts, being extremely thorough. I was afraid to look down because I always kept myself waxed.
    I was afraid to see what kind of amazon forest had grown between my legs while I was unconscious. Even if that’s what Ocean saw, it didn’t bother him one bit. He groomed me, brushed my teeth, and dressed me without one complaint, huff or puff.
    The soreness in my right leg was calming down the longer I stood up straight. Either that or my tolerance for the pain was building.
    By the time Ocean was done with me in the bathroom, I was able to put eighty percent of my own weight on it. When he leaned me up against the wall to clean up and put my gown and things away, I pushed off the wall carefully concentrating on making it to the bed on my own. I was definitely my father’s daughter.
    After just one step, I heard Ocean growl behind me feeling the heat from his eyes on my back.
    “Liv stop. I’m almost done.”
    I ignored him because I had something to prove to myself. In a couple hours, he would be dropping me off in a rehabilitation facility. I had to start learning how to let him go.
    I was taking my next step, almost making it completely out of the bathroom, when the sound of Ocean’s phone ringing broke through my concentration. I took too big of a step with my injured leg and my muscles gave out on me.
    As I felt myself crashing to the floor, Ocean’s hands grabbed me hard underneath my armpits keeping me from landing face first on the white cold floor.
    “Fuck Liv! I told you to wait!”
    Tears fell down my face as I felt the fresh wave of pain slam into me again. He picked my body up with his hands still under my arms like I weighed nothing to him and carefully laid me back onto the bed, propping me up so I was sitting up at a comfortable angle.
    “What the hell was that for Liv? What the fuck were you trying to prove? What…you don’t want my help? Is that it?”
    I refused to answer his questions because no matter what I would end up saying or how many times I apologized, all he would see would be the girl he loved that would rather die than be with him.
    He was so wrong.  
    Chapter Ten
    Ocean
    I stared down at Liv watching her bottom lip quiver and her eyes water as she refused to answer me. I wondered if she was completely hell bent on showing me that she didn’t want me or need me for that matter. “Livie!”
    That did it because her head snapped in my direction, narrowing her exotic fucking eyes at me.
    God I loved making her mad.
    I loved how her dark brown eyes would pierce right through me, shredding through every wall of defense I spend so much time building towards her and the rest of this fucking world.
    “That’s not what it meant!” Her voice was still weak but it was no longer a raspy whisper. “I was trying to do it on my own because soon you and everyone else I care about is going to drop me off at a fucking rehab facility. You won’t be there to help me then Ocean! I was doing it for me.”
    She balled the fist of her good hand, grabbing at the bed sheets as she cried.
    Fuck!
    I sat down on the bed facing her.