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“You are going to be different than her” His eyes ran over me as he rounded the island, him on one end, me on the other “I cannot wait to—"

My hand slipped in and out of un to the irl iven me a life I loved One I wouldn’t let be taken from me

I didn’t hesitate pulling the trigger Twice

Cristian

Sienna was pregnant

She hadn’t told me yet, but I knew I knew the cycles of her body I knew every inch of her I noticed her nipples grow, darken, her breasts getting heavier with each day It was likely, very likely, that it happened the week of the wedding The wedding day It could be h But it also could be Felix’s Time would tell Whether or not that baby came out with my eyes, my jaw, my hair, or with Felix’s, I would love it all the same

My blood turned as we drove up to the gates

The open gates

Myburied, crashed into the present Felix was luckily not burdened by the past, by the pain of it He floored it the second he noticed so up the driveway

It took mere seconds to make it to the front door

Not short enough Not if she was already gone

I was out of the car before Felix caunshots echoed in quick succession

The story could not end this way Not so similar to how it started

But it could It most definitely could

Life was plenty cruel enough for that

But I forgot

This could not end similar to how it started

Because I was not with a girl like the one I had fallen in love with another lifetio

No

Sienna was nothing like her

So I found blood when I entered the kitchen

But it didn’t belong to my woman

It was the second ti shot a man who did her harm The second time I lost the chance to save her because she’d already saved herself

As much as the petty, juvenile part of me wanted to be the one to save her, I knew that it was impossible to save her from this world