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He nodded once, and then left just as an EMT walked in through our front door Dane pointed at me, and then disappeared down the hallway
The EMT checked me over, made sure the baby was okay, but I was absent the entire time My mind was stuck on ‘replay’, and as hard as I tried to expel everything from my head, I just couldn’t
When the EMT was satisfied that I didn’t need to go to the hospital, he joined the rest of his teaht it in? – And my eyes followed as they wheeled Stella’s body out of the house Reid ca room, his eyes wild, and his movements frantic, but when he tried to wrap his arms aroundthe dried blood on his chest My throat started closing again but I shook the feeling away, and diverted aze
"Jade?"
I heard the hurt in Reid’s voice because I felt it too I was being grossly unfair, but before I could talk to hi hih and yet I couldn’t stand the thought of hi me after his mouth and his hands had been on her
"Reid"
We both looked up and Reid’s father was standing next to a detective Reid sighed, and after givingto the detective
All the sounds, the talking, the people drifted away, and I foundtowards the nursery Luckily Reid didn’t followchair
I STARTLED AWAKE when the door to the nursery opened Reid stuck his head in, and I noticed that he was freshly showered
I looked up, and found his sad, hesitant eyes regardingthrough the as harrowed Like me, he must’ve been exhausted It was already three aain, and I’d never felt further apart from him than I did at that moment
"The cops just left," he told me He opened the door wider, and walked in, dressed in a clean pair of boxer briefs, and a white t-shirt "I told theive your statement"
I turned back towards the"Okay"
I heard his feet on the soft carpet, and felt him kneel in front of me He braced his hands onout of my mind over here Are you okay?"
"I’ horrible, and unreasonable, and the guilt warred with everything else that was tearing ry with me," pleaded Reid I finally turned my eyes towards hiry with thisnecessary to ot away unharmed? He’d put hi sorry for myself because he kissed his now-dead ex
All to keep hter safe
God, I was a bitch
He didn’t deserve it