So much has happened I don’t even know where to begin.
It’s just too much, after everything that happened with Albright and Benny and all the others. Lacy is mending. Thank God. We came so close to losing her. And we never even suspected something more was going on.
It all could have ended that night at the hospital.
Houghton and Chance have tightened security overall, which I knew would happen. Houghton is terrified something else will happen soon.
It’s his go-to reaction whenever anything like this happens.
How can I blame him?
We could’ve lost Jillian, too. That night on the road. Jillian, Lacy, and Ari–all three.
If Travis hadn’t been so close… if they hadn’t been able to get Jillian to help, my little sister could’ve bled to death.
I’ll never forget that.
Everyone is quiet now. Just giving the three of them room to heal again. They hadn’t deserved this. None of them had. But Lacy… I’ll never forget what happened to her.
She’s getting out of the hospital soon, and there’s some debate about where she’s going.
It’ll probably be with Travis, of course. That man — Elliot and Chance’s cousin — absolutely adores Lacy. I knew that the night of the banquet.
It was in the way he looked at her.
Of course when a woman gets looked at with that much heat it’s hard not to see it.
I should know, Houghton still looks at me that way. I hope he always will.
We’re headed to the hospital, to check on Lacy for ourselves again.
Rumor has it, they are moving her out of ICU today. We all want to be there, to take turns sitting with her. Maybe someone can actually get Travis to go take a shower.
He doesn’t want to leave her side.
I want to see her for myself, too. I remember what it was like to be lying there with holes in your body. Wondering.
Lacy’s fortunate, they don’t think there’ll be any lasting damage. They don’t think so, anyway.
It could have all ended so differently.
Jillian has been so jumpy, and it’s obvious she hasn’t been sleeping lately.
And how could she?
What she’d seen…I’m not some sure how much longer my little sister can hold on. Can keep going.
Still, Jillian’s one of the strongest people I know. But…
Sometimes I can’t help but wonder what’s going happen next? Who is going to get hurt next?
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