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“Oh my God!”
I got so lost in my thoughts then. It’s a shock when I almost trip over something splayed out on the floor by the trash cans of the clinic.
It takes me even longer to realize that it’s a body.
“Holy shit.”
I drop everything in my hands and bend down to try and help the person who either got hurt just outside the clinic, or just about managed to make it here for help.
Either way, I need to get this man inside.
“John,” I cry out, hoping that at least one of the guards can hear me. “John, help!”
As he comes to assist me, I’m grateful for the bodyguards for the very first time.
“Oh, what happened here?”
“I don’t know, but I can’t help him out here. We need to get him inside.”
It’s only when John carefully turns the man over to help get him inside quicker that the world crumbles underneath me. The floor that I’m balanced on seems to tilt and fall. I feel like I’m falling because of the dizziness for a little while.
I know that face.
It’s a face I didn’t ever expect to see again.
For a moment, I don’t know if I’m imagining him just because I want to see him so badly.
But nope, it’s definitely him.
Owen.
What the hell happened to Owen?
“No, actually, this isn’t going to work,” I insist. “We can’t take him into the clinic.”
“Why not?”
John’s wide eyes need an answer that I just can’t give him.
“He’s… he’s someone who has helped Dad in the past. Someone the cops can’t find.”
Please, don’t ask too many questions,I silently plead.
Thankfully, John is too well trained for that. “Okay, so where do we take him?”
“My apartment.”
The race is on.
I have to close up the clinic for the next person, which I hate doing, but this is an emergency. The police cannotfind Owen… that’s paramount.
Nor can whoever did this to him.
I’m sure John will have to tell my dad but I can’t worry about that at the moment.
I need to keep Owen alive.
What the hell happened to him? Why did he leave me forthis?
