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I let them hold me, but panic fills me.
They are in so deep. What happens when he comes back? He’ll keep his promise. He’ll go for Faye, for them.
All because of me.
I can’t let that happen. Even if it means leaving, even if it means breaking their hearts to keep them alive, I will, because I love them more than anything in this world, and that makes them vulnerable. But I feel the same, I’d do anything for them.
I would even ruin what we have to save them. Let’s just hope it doesn’t come down to that. I need to think of a new plan, but right now, they are right. I want to hold them, even if it makes my heart hurt. After I’m cleared, my head checked and dressed, I follow the guys outside.
As soon as I’m out in the open, I feel a prickle on my neck, but it’s probably my overactive imagination. He wouldn’t come here, not with all the victims and police. That would be suicide. Luckily, I managed to talk the guys out of getting me in an ambulance, so my car is here, which means we can go home and regroup.
I feel the need to hold them close, to let them wash it all away and make it better even though I know they can’t. My mind is wavering between running after him and leaving them to keep them safe, and staying because I need them and they need me. But I won’t make a rash decision. For once, I won’t be reckless.
Not with their hearts on the line.
When we get to my car, more flowers are sitting on the bonnet.
I freeze before I collapse to my knees and scream.
