บท 29: Chapter 29

MARI

"Are you sure the house is safe?" I asked still clutching myself to Oliver’s side. I had no plans to let him out of my sight, and he didn’t appear concerned with letting me go either. We answered questions from a slew of men in matching black shirts who looked like they were straight off the Navy base, two uniformed police officers, and the town’s detective, Anderson.

"Yes, we’ve swept it ourselves. She was here alone," Ridge Jefferson, the leader of Pelican Bay Security and the man Pierce mentioned more than once said even as his eyes surveyed the area around us.

"Have you heard a report from the hospital yet?" Oliver asked. He knew what I worried about but didn’t have the guts to find out myself.

What if they said Melissa died? What she did was stupid, but she didn’t deserve to end her life over it. Although would a two-story fall be enough to kill someone? She wasn’t speaking as they put her on the stretcher, but her arms were flailing.