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His gun is pointing at Beck and I close my eyes when I hear the click of the trigger and the bullet leave his gun.

When I open my eyes, everything moves in slow motion.Beck collapses in the doorway, but his hands never leave his gun as I hear three more shots ring out.

Jason’s limp body falls on top of me and I scream out loud.Struggling to get him off me as I feel something wet begin to soak my shirt.

Blood.

He’s dead.

He’s finally dead.

I’m too weak to move his heavy body and I cry out as he’s suddenly lifted off me.A warm blanket is wrapped around my naked body as strong arms scoop me off the ground.

I look up and it’s Finn’s eyes I see.My hands grip his shirt and I bury my face in his neck, sobbing and calling Beck’s name.

“It’s okay, Kelsey,” he murmurs into my hair, shushing and kissing my head.“I’ve got you.”

I hear loud voices, people barking out orders and pounding feet, as sirens blare through it all.

“Where’s Beck?”I ask, fearful and Finn’s eyes say it all.His heart is beating so fast and hard in his chest I can feel it pulsing against my skin.When the first tear slips from his eye, I can’t control myself and I immediately start screaming.

“He was shot, Kels,” he tells me, but his voice is shaky.“They took him away in an ambulance.”

“No!No, no, no!”I yell, my hands digging into Finn’s skin as I sob hysterically.

Why is this happening to us?

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Beck

“Kels,” I yell, trying to sit up.“Kelsey!”

“Sir, please, just lie back,” a voice I don’t recognize says.“We need you to calm down.”

“Fuck that,” I say, a jolt of pain shooting through me as I try to sit up again.“I need to find Kelsey.”

“The other officer has got her,” the voice says.“But I’m going to need you to lie back and calm down, you’ve lost a lot of blood.”

I feel hands push on my shoulders as another shot of pain hits me.All of sudden, I feel woozy, almost like I’m going to be sick.The entire room starts to spin and whatever I’m lying on is jolting from side to side as though we are moving.

“Sir?”the voice says again.“Sir, can you hear me?”

“What?”I say, my voice suddenly garbled as though my mouth is filled with cotton.“What did you say?”

“Sir, I need you to stay with me,” the voice repeats and I can’t help but think,stay with you where?

What’s going on, where am I and what is happening to me?

All of sudden, everything goes black, a heavy weight settling over me and pushing me under.The last thing I remember before everything disappears is an image of Kelsey, half naked as a man hovers over her.

NO!

When I next open my eyes, I’m lying in a bed and my entire body feels heavy.My throat is sore and scratchy and when I lift my arms, trying to work out where I am, nothing moves.

“Beck, don’t,” comes a voice I never expected to hear again.“Just relax, I’ll get you some water.”

I force my eyes to open and when they do, I see her.Kelsey is sitting on the side of my bed, staring down at me with so much love on her face, it makes my chest ache.But then I see the bruises and cuts, the black eye she now sports and all of a sudden, I’m filled with anger.