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“You think this is my fault? They wouldn’t have been able to mess with her car if she’d been at the house withto all kinds of places, like when had the brakes been fucked with and when?

“No, Tate You were an asshole but this was going to happen at some point”

“Yeah, thanks,” I told hi both sides of the road, hoping like hell Teddy’s car wouldn’t be hidden in the dark shadows I sent a prayer out into the world, pleading that if there was anyone listening, they would make damn sure Teddy was okay

She had to be

Chapter 18

Teddy

Before I even woke up, I knew so I noticed was the bleachy, disinfectant scent that told me I was in some type of medical facility like a hospital or maybe an insane asylum At this point I had no idea Then I heard the beeps, the whirs, hisses and clicks, all tellingbad had happened My eyes wouldn’t open, like lead weights were keeping the lids closed no led

Finally, I gave up and just listened to the sounds of all thefroen inall around my body and the number of different sounds all around me, I kneas hurt Bad And as I tried to sit up, the shooting pain in ht it all back to me

Driving back to the Reckless Bastards hangar with a trunk full of ice, because ice was another thing Tate was supposed to do Only he’d been off doing who and what the fuck was anybody’s dauess, and that was how I’d ended up on Interstate 15 at seventy-five miles an hour The car started to vibrate and then made a kind of burp as I moved over for the next exit, but then Jana called, distracting me Still, I listened to her excitedly ras she loved about the party, s at her over the top happiness

The car wouldn’t slon as I turned onto the exit ra so too fast on the exit and then the asphalt turning to grass andwent black

So I wasn’t dead and this hospital room was my personal hell I put all ofblinding white fluorescent lights et the fuck out of this place

Finally, when my eyes opened, I scanned the rooeon But when I tried to sit up, fiery nails stabbed every inch of my skin

“Oh fuck!” A string of colorful curses rang out in the eenius had put it on the sa cast

“Shit, shit, goddaer landed on the call button for about four seconds because that’s all I could handle before the pain intensified

“Ms Quinton, you’re awake”