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“You okay?” I asked as I listened to Adam question Amelia behind me

“Yeah” Her breath hitched “Just hurts”

“You need a more comfortable position?” I asked

“Yes,” she whispered “I need to sit up a little bit, I think”

Grabbing her around the waist,both sides of her hips so totally well that ideas started to spread through my mind rapid-fire, I helped scoot her up in the bed

Then went even further to sit her bed up

Her face released of pain, then she saw her dad standing by the door, eyes on so outside

“What is it?” she asked me

“Active shooter,” I answered “Now, sit here, don’t talk Don’t even breathe Don’t move Do you understand?”

I could tell that she had about fifty thousand questions she wanted to spew out, but she held each one in and nodded

I reached for the blanket that was on the end of the bed and covered her feet up better

She tossed me a wobbly smile, then I ordered the women into the bathroom

“Even you, darlin’,” I snapped at A on to Adam

“Who are… Laric?”

I nodded once “Me Go”

She frowned but chose to go when her husband all but pushed her into the bathroom with Harlow and Winter ere already there I forced Al to take his place inside with the the door on their faces

I then walked over and turned off the lights to the room entirely

Plunged into pitch blackness, the only thing we could hear was each other’s breathing

“Do you think it’s him?” Jack asked

“No” I paused “I think if it was him, that he would be on this floor, and he would’ve made it all the way in here before any one of us would’ve been the wiser”

“So you think that my sister is just that unlucky?” Adam asked

“I think that it was just the wrong place at the right tireed

The blaring alaro off, but just as suddenly as it started, it ended

“Code black discontinued”

I blew out a sigh of relief and flipped the lights back on