MAGNOLIA The sun was harsh against my eyes; my lids had been fluttering through the ride. Everywhere was still calm. The neighbors were all in their homes, probably hadn't heard the news yet. After the police boats sailed away with their sirens and the man I couldn't switch stop in my head from worrying about, Eugene had commanded the superyacht captain to turn around to San Francisco before we took the emergency helicopter, along with some of the men I still can't wrap in my head of how they had blatantly betrayed Reign. Reign had flaws, though I can't even tell if I am sure he had. I certainly knew he didn't deserve this. No human should live what he went through. I had discerned sincerity in his gazes when I was alone with him; his words were riddles, mostly swaying between earn

