Before Alexa could ask the one question that burned inside her since she found out, Peyton turned to Kai.
“How long have I been out?”
“Three days.”
“How did it end?”
Kai smiled. The breath he’d been holding since Peyton pinned Olivia between the Dodge and the dumpster left his body, and with it, the weight of not knowing if Peyton would recover. He’d told Jayce about Peyton’s condition when his friend rode in the backseat to the hospital while trying to stop her from bleeding out. With no questions of why or when, Jayce focused on Riley and reported that the energy of the fetus remained strong, if erratic.
“You got in the Dodge, started it, and drove into Olivia, pinning her between the car and a dumpster, which, at fifty miles an hour, embedded itself into the brick wall of the build
