* quick authors note *
Thank you for the support on the story. I know it's not the best out there but I appreciate every single one of you who have supported me this far! I hope you're still enjoying it and let me know if there's anything particular you want to see happen. Anyway, just wanted to say thanks.
Much love, the author.

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Y/n: "Please Marc, you're hurting me, I can't breathe..."

Marc didn't loosen his grip as he continued to speak.
"You can't deny, you love me somewhere in your heart."
Y/n was crying so much all she could do was shake her head.

"Not even when I held your umbrella so you could take photos of the rain, not even when I let you lay on my chest all night long, not even when we painted your room and ended up having a paint war... Not even now?"

Marc kissed her slowly, passionately.
Y/n broke the kiss by shaking her head, sobbing: "Please don't do this..."
Marc saw her eyes, the fear, the pain and released her. He felt more heartbreak than he ever had. He didn't stop her when she opened the door and ran out the room...

Y/n was crying so much, her neck purple with the fingers of the haunting grip. She sat on the sidewalk just outside the hotel, with no phone all she could do was sit and sob. Remembering not only Marc's words, the pain he's caused but how mere hours earlier she'd quit on Charles, who seemed to hate her too...

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C: "Thats it, we've looked for almost an hour. She's nowhere. It's all my fault. I'm such an idiot!"
M: "Your fault?"
C: "I spoke too quickly, I said all the wrong things, I should never have let Jess inside my head again. I f** up the one good thing I had going! And now the one girl I only truly loved is gone and it's all my fault!"
M: "We'll find her mate, we will. I messaged Lando and he's searching the far side of the city. We'll figure this out."

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** Lando POV **

Max had told me y/n was missing, I immediately started looking in this part of the city. When I started losing hope I saw a girl, she looked absolutely broken, sitting on the sidewalk. At a closer glance I saw it was y/n and ran up to her.

"Y/n! Oh y/n! What happened, we've been all over this city looking for you..."
Y/n: "Lando? Oh-"
She grabbed him and held him tight, he instinctively wrapped his arms around her.
L: "Hey, heyy. It's okay. Let's get you safe and then we'll talk. You should probably go to the hospital, you may have worse injuries than bruising."

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Lando drove y/n to the hospital and as soon as they arrived the doctors took her for examinations. He let Max and Charles know they were at the hospital and they immediately made their way there.