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Hunter is laid out in the backseat clutching his shoulder I get in the passenger side feeling violated and numb Hayley starts the car and it takes us a while to leave because we are stuck behind everyone else

When we get off Butler Road and turn to go to the hospital, we get stopped in traffic again

There are blue lights flashing and sirens wailing A nervous flutter shoots throughwheel and we aren’t

“I’ to see if I can find out what happened and if there is any e can get through”

“Okay” Hayley gives me a weak smile

I press ahead to the end of the street and my head starts to spin Ben’s car is smashed into the side of another The front end is deht andme forward I can’t breathe I can’t talk This can’t be happening It feels like a bad drea to wake up and be back in the apart to stroke his finger along ives o around the police car and stare at the wreckage Glass is glittered on the asphalt Bile rises up my throat, and I s it back down and look around for Killian There’s a wo to a police officer

Another officer grabs o over there”

My eyes land on Killian’s leather jacket and a screah uttural sound is co from me and that the body in the road is that of the man I love

“No Nohoo Please, God Killian, get up” I wrestle away from the officer and throw myself down on his chest blinded bymy fist on his chest “Breathe damn you Just breathe for ers to his top lip and bring my mouth to his, blood smears across my cheek and on my hands

Arms hook under my shoulders and pull me back as EMTS arrive on the scene

I kick and screa rab for his jacket hoping his hand will reach back and take mine, but it doesn’t He is eerily still

Hayley has her arms around me “I’m so sorry, Liri I’m so sorry,” she cries and pets my hair as they wheel him away on a stretcher

Fat tears roll down my cheeks “He has to be okay, Hayley I can’t lose him I can’t”

“Can she go with hiether”

Some man takes pity on me and says, “She can ride in the front”