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I blew every red light on the way to her parents’ house

White knuckles

Heart pounding

Dread souring in ut

I’d been driving around town, searching for her for over an hour, and was nowup with texts and calls fronored them

I was running out of time

He was running out of time, and she didn’t even know it yet

He couldn’t die For fuck’s sake, I’d talked to Brenden just thatWe’d rab a burger for dinner It was rare when Lauren and I were able to get out at the same time now that we had Jack, but damn if Brenden wasn’t relentless

Lex loved it ere all together

He just liked when she was happy

It didn’t seem fair Not for him Not for her He enty-two, already at the top of his career, and had a woman who adored him The same woman I was about to destroy with the news of his accident

I dialed her number for what felt like the thousandth tiht to voicemail Even if she had picked up, I had no idea what I would have said This wasn’t news you shared over the phone, and I sure as hell didn’t want her behind the wheel of a car while clinging to the edge of panic

I’d known Alexis Lawson for over a decade, but I was nowhere near qualified to deliver this kind of devastation But if not me, then who?

His friend who had found his lifeless body still trapped beneath the four-wheeler?

The cop who had been the first on the scene and requested every medical resource available when he couldn’t find a pulse?

The EMT who had tirelessly performed CPR until the helicopter finally arrived to transport him to the hospital?