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“Take her out of here?” I said quietly to Farrah

“Sure thing” She grabbed the bag from my hand and wrapped her arm around Cecilia’s shoulders “Come on, let’s find your dad”

“Mark?” Cecilia asked, looking over her shoulder at me, her face still void of any emotion whatsoever

“I’ll be right out, Cec,” I replied, jerking my chin toward the door “Go with your mom”

“She’s in shock,” Forrest said after Farrah walked Cecilia out of the room “There a reason you didn’t want her in here for this?”

“She’s seen enough gunshot wounds,” I said, unzipping my hoodie

“Da scars on each shoulder, one of them just inches from the neound “Yours?”

“Mine,” I confir to block the memories of that day “And others Too many”

“Well, this’ll be a nice scar to add to your collection,” Forrest said in disgust as he pulled out a roll of bandages and an assorth Barely missed your clavicle Couple inches to the left and ouldn’t be havin’ this conversation”

“Can you stitch it?”

“Not in the next ten e should hold it until I’ve got some time to work”

“That’s fine,” I said, staring at the open doorway

I’d expected Cecilia to be freaked the fuck out I’d even expected her to be pissed But I hadn’t prepared for her to be unfazed No, not unfazed, it was like she was co that had happened

“You know, if you didn’t have so much muscle, the bullet would’ve missed you,” Forrest mused “Lucky shot”

“Doesn’t feel lucky,” I said as he pressed a bandage to each side of my shoulder

“They never do,” he replied dryly

As soon as I rapped like a mummy and taken whatever pills Forrest had dropped into s and left the roo to clean up the mess Forrest hadcreould come in later, people we trusted, to take care of the blood and bodies Wilson had probably already called them—he was usually Johnny-on-the-spot with that shit

Everyone was clustered in the garage e got downstairs, probably because most of the rooms had dead ave me a short nod

“Siah and Eph will meet us up north,” Eli inforo”

“Have the as Casper rubbed Cecilia’s back She still wasn’t really responding to anything around her “Tell them to head to Cecilia’s place and pack it up”

“You sure about that?” Cam asked