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Two Months Later

I pressed tighter againstin the feel of hiel Eyes by The Jeff Healy Band in the middle of the dance floor at Griff’s

Funny how things coainst his chest as I remembered the ht here in this bar, on this dance floor, dancing to this song on the night we et a chance to talk with ain, let alone dance with him, because he’d been shot by a psycho bitch with a stalker complex Luckily, it had hit hians, and just barelyhis subclavian artery

Thank God he’d survived, but if that artery would have been hit, he wouldn’t have The wound had healed nicely, but we both still have nightht

The loud bang that had startled us turned out to be a car accident that had happened alotten loose and ran into the street, causing a car co up the road to swerve to avoid it…only they’d ended up rear-ending a parked car instead They weren’t hurt, thank God, but I could have kissed thehtmare we’d been trapped in that day

Victoria wasn’t so lucky, though When she’d jerked, her finger had tightened on the trigger and I’d watched in horror as she died, right there ondown my face as my brain tried to process what had happened, those few, crystallized seconds burned into roan fro toto assess his wounds to see just where he was shot There was so much blood, but that was to be expected, I supposed, since he’d just been lying there, bleeding as everything played out

It seemed like thoseloop of horror that was actually only fifteen est minutes of et the phone, calling for help as I grabbed towels to press to his chest to stop the bleeding, as aited for help We left the house that night and only went back to pack upto stay in that house with the ghosts that would haunt it forever now

We’d put our belongings in storage and had been staying at Eed to find a new place that we fell in love with a couple weeks ago If everything ell, we’d be closing on it next month

Christmas and New Year were spent with our closest friends and faly), included Ian’s parents They’d received a wake-up call for sure when they’d cootten a very heart-felt apology from them both and they’d made it a point to meet us for dinner at least once every teeks, if not ot, but she’d stopped the snarky coet to know me better

They don’t talk to or see the Jones’ anyhter andbehind I didn’t blame them; I don’t think I’d be able to bear the whispers behind my back I also didn’t blame them for what Victoria had done I think they truly loved their daughter enough to look past her faults, but it doesn’t change the fact that there was so irl that they should have seen

Things have slowly gotten back to norh Well, as nor myself back to the present, I tippeddown atsoftly

"Hi," I said, s back

"Good?"

I nodded "Yep Perfect," I replied, going up on tip-toe to kiss hi and returned to the table where Chloe and Brandon were sitting with Allie and Jacks Lia the doctor friend she’d ht, because Everly had been sick, and Jenna and Noah said they were too worn out to go anywhere

Calland had ht by an absolutely stunning, tattooed redhead standing at the bar, looking over everyone with a bored expression, but there was a sharpness in her eyes that said she didn’tmy brother would not ith that one