And he killed my husband. Humiliated me. Lied to me. Saved me? Was that what he was doing, right now? He was kind to me when no one was kind to me. Brought part of me back to life that had been dead for so long. Whatever he was, none of it made sense.
I was at the front door when the sound of a gunshot ripped through the house. I fell to the ground, scraping my elbows and knees, throwing my arms up over my head.
In the silence after the gunshot, I turned, looked behind me.
Ronan, framed in the golden light of the open door, stood over Theo’s body. His black overcoat blowing out behind him in the cross breeze from all my broken windows. From my entirely broken life.
He was alive. I felt that somewhere. That he’d been the one to survive in the fight with Theo. That the gunshot was not the end of his life. My heart lifted at the sight of him.
I got slowly to my feet. Stumbling and weak from the drugs in my system. Part of me wanted to walk to him. To that bright square of light. To his arms. But I stood there in the cold night, the frosty grass unmoving.
No. He was not the answer. If I could get to my sister I could figure this out. She’d help me put the pieces together.
Or I could ask Ronan. Just ask him what—
He lifted the gun in his hand. Pointing it at me.
At me.
I turned, running into shadows. My heart screaming for my sister. For all the mistakes I made. For the man I’d given so much of myself to.
I heard the gunshot. Felt a sunfire blast through my shoulder. Fell to the earth where my world went dark.
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