For a solid minute, Gabriel stood outside the master bedroom door and just stared at it. He wanted to go in. He certainly needed to see Jocelyn and assure himself that she was fine.
Adrian had told him Diane hadn’t left Jocelyn’s side the entire time they had been gone dealing with Leland and the police. Dawn had long since crept over the horizon and the warm morning sun filtered into the house through every available window, breathing life into the place and chasing away the shadows of the previous night.
The outside of the house still looked chaotic, with spent cartridges, bodily fluids, and chips of paint and plaster from where bullets had dug into the walls.
Gabriel wanted nothing more than to just take Jocelyn away from there and back to the forest house, where it was safe and clea
