KAYLEE
My grandmother had once told me that there was a time in a person’s life when they had to make a decision whether to continue down the safe, well-marked path or jump the guardrails and go off-road into the unknown.
I could almost see my grandmother in my mind’s eye, watching me with her hands braced on her hips, her foot tapping impatiently as I froze outside the hospital room where Zeke was being kept.
The nurse I’d passed in the hallway once I left the bathroom had already informed me that Axel was in the room with Zeke, hence my hesitation.
It wasn’t so much that I feared being in the same room with Axel again, but given my recent encounter with a scorned ghost hell-bent on revenge, I needed to be absolutely certain of my next move before I made it. It was literally a life-
