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“He did, well sorta… that’s not all of it,” Finn defends and only then does this wave of comfort crash over me. Him safeguarding my actions, having my back.
“What do you mean?”
“Cole’s a great driver, he’s the reason we came out of this as well as we did. Without his quick thinking, we’d have probably been a lot worse off.”
My skin reheats all over again at the memory. Finn didn’t have to specify, the unspoken meaning obvious. We could’ve died.
The flesh along my neck strains taking in the gravity of the situation.
Here it comes…
“He saved us.”
My eyes spring open on their own accord. I hadn’t been expecting that.
I don’t dare to move anything else though, stuck to the side of my bed like I’d melted into the uncomfortable plastic.
The driver that caused us to crash was out for blood—ourblood. Them showing up as quickly as they disappeared. Wanting us gone at the same velocity.
“It was Mom. Lorna, she’d tailed us.” The words spill and hang out in the open for all the world to hear. The truth is set free.
Now that they’re out, they can never be put back in. The filth of the truth never to be sealed back into the box I was certain they’d stay in forever.
“She’s the reason we crashed,” Finn pushes. Expelling the sentence out with both anger and astonishment.
“Finn, I need you to be very specific,” Abram says. Basically, he’s stating that this is a heavy charge to insinuate, and he needs to be sure of his actions.
My friend doesn’t disappoint. He knows what he saw—we both noticed.
“I don’t know how long she was following but I don’t think she knew I was the one in the car. I assume she thought it was Rory who was in the passenger seat. It was dark.”
“And Lorna is aware of what Cole’s car looks like,” Abram adds as he puts his own pieces of this mess of a puzzle together.
I hear Finn swallow and I wouldn’t doubt if his head’s nodding in the same fashion. “His windows are tinted, there’s no way she would’ve been able to pick out more than the shadows of two figures.”
The sentence is shoveled out, so quickly I’m not sure how he isn’t hyperventilating or how his monitor isn’t going sporadic as mine had earlier.
He takes a few much-needed lungfuls of air after Abram encourages him to calm down. Most likely coming to the same conclusion I did.
Although, whatever sedative they’d given me was ten out of ten recommended.
“Mom did it. She tailed us, wanted us to crash. Wanted—”
“—Are you positive in this?” Abram’s tone leaving no room for uncertainty.
He isn’t asking because he doubts his son. He needs absolute clarification before he jumps into action. The wheel of his mind already spinning like a hamster who refuses to quit.
Finn doesn’t hesitate. “Positive.”
And like that, it’s done.
I hear as the chair thunders and Abram rises from his spot. He mumbles a pensive goodbye, even though I know his phone is already pressed to his ear. No doubt waiting for Sgt. Daniels to pick up on the other end of the line.
The calmness of his steps as he leaves the room jarring further at the intensity of the situation. The purpose of them more present than when he’d arrived.
“Alright, dick fingers, time to wake up from your pretend slumber,” I hear right before a pillow smacks me on the back of the head.
The ever-visible frown lines on my face deepen.
