Part 20

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I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet also to find the courage to go forward in life.

- Tim O'Brien.

"What are you talking about?" I tried to hide my nervousness but I wasn't able to do that.

Did Floki recognized me? Does he know me better than Ivar? God, this isn't happening, I need help.

"Relax, I know everything. I didn't recognized you, in fact, no one could. You're unrecognizable, what they did to you?" Floki said while looking at me, from head to toe.

"Look, you told Ivar?" I asked, if he knows, there's no point in denying it.

"No, and I won't. I know that he screwed up, big time. And I can't begin to imagine the pain you felt when you lost your baby." I frowned, he thinks that I lost Henry?

"What you're talking about?" I asked confused.

"That's why you're doing that revenge, right? Because you lost your baby." He thinks that I lost Henry, maybe that's why he didn't told Ivar the truth. I want to keep it that way.

"What do you want, Floki?"

"I wanna help, I hate Aslaug too, remember? She doesn't deserve her family, please let me help." He begged, I can't trust him, I don't know him that well, he can feel tempted to tell Ivar my plans.

"That's not necessary, my plans are going great. I don't want or need your help." The elevator door opened and I left the building, Jay was waiting for me already.

"Okay, if you need any help, with anything. Call me." He said.

"I won't, just don't tell anyone what you know." I said sternly.

"I promise you, no one will ever know." He giggled and entered his car, Jay came to me.

"Are you okay, what did he wanted with you?" Jay asked concerned, he was already in detective mode.

"He knows about me, but he thinks that I lose Henry when I was pregnant. He wanted to help, he hadn't told anyone yet, I want to keep it that way." I looked down and Jay hugged me, he's such a great friend.

"Everything is going to be fine, you don't have to worry. You have me to protect you, and your whole family. They can't hurt you anymore, I promise you." I smiled and he put his hand on my cheek, I'm so lucky to have a friend like him.

"You're a great friend, Jay." I said honestly and he smirked.

"I know." We both laughed.

Then something happened, Ivar happened. He punched Jay, He wasn't expecting it, so he fell on the ground, and Ivar kept punching him.

"You're fucking her? I'm gonna show you that no one touches what's mine, you're fucking prick." He kept punching Jay, I screamed for Ivar to stop, but he didn't.

I did the only thing that I could think of at the time, I tried to separate both of them, I shouldn't do that. Ivar punched me in the face, and it was bleeding, when he looked at me, I was sitting on the ground, with my hand on my nose, it was bleeding pretty bad. He finally stopped punching Jay, Jay's face was full of blood, this is my fault, Ivar did that because of me.

"I'm so sorry." Ivar tried to touch me, but I didn't let him.

"Get away from me." My voice was muffled because of my hand, but he understood me.

I went to Jay, who was still trying to get up.

"Jay, are you okay?" I asked, he looked pretty bad.

"I had worse in Chicago." He laughed and he made me laugh.

"Let me take both of you to the hospital, I'm so sorry." He tried to help me get up, but I hadn't let him.

"You have done enough, leave us alone." I screamed.

"Jay, are you alright enough to drive?" I asked him.

"No, I think that I broke a rib." He hissed in pain.

"Stay there, I'm gonna call an ambulance for you." I laid him on the ground again, if he kept moving a rib could've perforate his lung.

I grabbed my phone and I called an ambulance for us, and then I looked at Ivar.

"If you don't wanna go to jail, I suggest that you leave." I said serious, he nodded and entered his apartment.
I called Harvey, this needs to go away.

"Hey sister, how are you?" He seemed happy, and I'm gonna leave him in a bad mood.

"Harvey, something happened." I said to him, I was starting to cry.

"What happened?" He was in a bad mood already.

"I was talking to Jay, when Ivar saw us, he got so mad that he beat up Jay, and he ended up punching me in the face too." I said through tears, I can't believe this is happening.

"I'm going to Paris right now." Now he was really angry.

"Harvey, that's not necessary, I just want the history to go away."

"Not necessary?" He screamed. "He beat up my friend, a friend that was supposed to protect you, and he hurt you too. Fuck the history."

"Harvey, this is not Jay's fault." I tried to reason with him.

"I know, look, I'm in Spain now. I'm gonna get the jet, I'm here in half hour, maybe less. I'm gonna warn everybody." He signed and hang up the phone, the ambulance came and took us to the hospital.

My nose wasn't broken, it was just purple. The doctor put the bandage on my nose, and after that I didn't leave Jay, he needed surgery, a rib perforate his left lung. I was crying in the waiting room, this is all my fault.

"Antoinette." Harvey screamed, he was alone.

"Harvey." I hugged him tightly.

"This is all my fault, he's in surgery because of me." I cried on his shoulder.

"Hey, this is not your fault, he's gonna be fine. Do you know how many things Jay survived?" He giggled and I laughed, wiping the tears off my face.

"No."

"A lot of things, he's not gonna die just because the Lothbrok boy kicked his ass." We laughed.

"Where's everybody?" I asked him.

"Gisla and Rollo should be here at any moment, Donna and our mother are in New York, they already took a jet, they should be here in a few hours." He smiled and I nodded.

"What about Henry?" Panic started, Henry is not supposed to see me like this.

"His friend asked him to go to his house, I was going to bring him here, but he really wanted to go to his friend's house." I signed relieved.

"Now tell me exactly what happened." He said serious.

"Everything happened so fast, I was talking to Jay and suddenly, Ivar jumped on him and beat the crap out him. Jay couldn't even react, everything happened so fast." Tears were falling again, nothing bad can happen to Jay.

"Okay, I will handle this. I'll take advantage that his whole family is in Paris now, we will gonna talk to them."
I started to panic, his whole family? I'm not ready for that, I'm not ready to see Aslaug after all this years.

"No, Harvey, please." I begged him, but I know it's in vain, Harvey already made up his mind.

"It's settled, we will threaten him with a lawsuit, he thinks that he will not pay for hurting my friend and my sister, he's very mistaken." I've seen that look on his eyes before, he's determined, and no one will change his mind.

"Harvey...."

"The Lothbroks will handle with me now."

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