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Stacy sat on the sith a beer in hand and I gladly accepted when he pulled one from the ice chest between his feet and offered one to me

“Long day?” he asked giving rin

“Shitty day is more like it Hoas yours?”

“The sa It was nice to just relax and enjoy the fall air October had shown its face and I had welcomed it with open arms

“The club is having sootten involved” I was not sure where that had co of the club, yet here I was telling Stacy It er that lurked in the back of my sub-conscious

Involved how?” Stacy asked turning to look at ht at the bar and the red and gray vests that seemed to shoherever I was “That sounds pretty serious, Dallas,” he said concerned I gave hiedwill bother you here Not as long as I am around”

I knew Stacyanyone who tried to get through that door I wasn’t worried in the least, but I didn’t want to steal his glory so I just patted hih I was ready to go to bed and hopefully figure some of this shit out

I cli I needed the exercise after the fried cheese and two mixed drinks I had, and walked into hts and that was highly unusual for someone as fit as myself I passed it off as stress then climbed into bed and prayed for a better tomorrow

I could hear thefor e with nothing to hold onto but a tree root The raging water beloas littered with sharp rocks and I knew that even if I e the rocks I would still drown in the swift current The noise became louder and my heart sped He would be here soon I wipedwet I wondered how the sea spray ed to reach me all the way up here My hair et too I must have fallen in and then cli I had never been scared of anything What had scared me?

The e of the cliff and I tried to scream for Luke, but no matter how loud I screae of the cliff and looked down He held his hand out to me I reached for him, but he was too far away Just a few more inches and I would be safe I looked up into his eyes, but instead of seeing his blue ones, all I saas black This was not Luke This guy had a large scar on his face and was laughing at me

“Good-bye sleeping beauty,” he said tosweet voice He produced a s to killit, he connected with the tree root and I was falling

I sat straight up in the bed and breathed deep trying to catch estion that was building there My whole body was soaking wet and I was burning up

I decided a hot shoould hopefully clear up soestion in my chest I climbed from the bed and made my way to the bathroom It seemed like forever before I made it and , I felt a fraction better I decided the soaked sheets on my bed would not be very comfortable, so I pulled the comforter from the bed and curled up on the settee

A loud banging inoutside hurtfrom the door

“Come in,” I said, but it came out as only a whisper I had not ain I was covered in sweat

“Miss Dallas you got a phone call and if you don’t get outta that bed you gonna be late for work” I inized Jackie’s voice I didn’t care if she hated ht now I needed so withwas shallow and I felt as if so on my chest