28. It has always been you.
Katarina.
Reid Colleman looks at me like he can’t believe I’m real… but he’s still holding that rock.
Very bad.
I click the safety off the gun.
“I’m not playing,” I warn him.
My eyes never leave him, so I see clearly how he swallows, like he’s fighting against what his eyes are seeing.
“K—”
I shake my head.
Fuck K.
“One… two…”
Before I get to three, a small body crashes into mine, forcing me back several steps.
I grind my teeth to keep the tears away.
Willa seems oblivious to the danger in my hands, and also to the fact that I’m about to kill her husband; she just hugs me tightly, burying her face in my neck while she sobs and laughs at the same time, emotion and shock running through her completely.
“You’re here…”
I say nothing; I keep aiming at
