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“Cara calledif she could come over She had a suspicion about Alex Moore and knew Reed was on a plane Once she told un and went to Katy’s to look around I hoped Ari had gone back to Jacksonville as planned, but when I arrived and saw her SUV there and Grange’s truckI walked around back and saw them tied up Even with her transformation, I kneas Alex I wanted to shoot her in the shoulder or soun at Davis and pulled the trigger, I aimed to kill”

Reed starts to shake behindand his eyes full of pure hatred

“Miss Matthews, how did you get intel that Alex was going after Miss Williams?” the officer asks Cara

“Alex was vain andto take the public rejection well A feeeks ago, I decided to look into her norure out how she could fly under the radar First, I contacted her regular hairdresser It took so onto a hotel to do a transfor because of huot the hotel inforo She was slowly changing everything about herself She was a social media whore and loved the attention online So I did a search and found she had opened a new account with an avatar as her identity She had opened chats with strangers asking about the best European vacation spots Well, this one She never leaves this early so I got worried and called Luke”

“Why didn’t you come to the police with your concerns?”

“And say what? The woed her appearance? I greith her and saw the devastation she caused when she didn’t get her way I knew she was up to so but I couldn’t prove it”

“You’ve been in town all this ti her?” Reed asks

She nods her head and looks atto prove to Ari how sorry I aht if I could trap Alex in a lie and expose her, it would help”

“Do you agree with Mr Adams earlier statement?” the Officer asks

“Yes, when she fired off the first shot at my nephew, Luke shot”

The officers ask a few more questions and I feel sick that Luke s in our favor, one is he is on the deed to the house So technically, he was protecting his home when he found an intruder After her stroke, Katy put both our names on the deed She never explained why, but I suspected she wanted Luke to have a ho happened to her or me

When the officers ask everything they need to, they leave and Aht I think my ribs will crush Reed never leaves from behind me and Davis crawls up in our laps No one else wants to leave, and I doze on and off on Reed’s chest as everyone talks around us

A doctor coeon He was able to remove the bullet; she had soery I confirm she has a DNR and he explains the next twenty-four hours are critical She’s in recovery but when she’s moved to ICU, we can visit for a few minutes

After he leaves, Reed asks for the hospital adest room available in the hospital and a cot ht Then Aet us soet soet o of me once When I am offered a wheelchair, he refuses and carries me instead The new room is more like a suite It’s twice the size and has a full hospital bed instead of the nor so Reed texts Luke to bring back some soup

Reed gets behind ain and tuckshead

“Never ever letting you out ofwith me from now on”