Chapter 74

At the hotel Rhett spent the night in a fitful slumber due to the haunting memories that used to rob him of sleep. For the longest time, he couldn’t catch a wink without popping some sleeping pills.

On the nightstand, there were sleeping pills that York had set out for him, but tonight Rhett didn’t take any. His head was buzzing with thoughts of Kristin…

Funny enough, Rhett never thought he’d be head over heels for a dame.

When she said she was deaf in her left ear and tried to off herself more times than she could count, she was so calm like she was talking about the weather or spilling the beans on something trivial.

Glancing at the clock, it was already 3 a.m.

Rubbing his chest to calm a heart that wasn’t in it, Rhett felt all kinds of restlessness.

Why the heck did he keep thinking about that gal without even trying..

His phone screen lit up with a call, but in sleep mode, not even a buzz.

Outskirts of town.

Kristin was trembling all over as she stared at her phone, shaking so much she was about out of juice.

“Lady, we should call the fuzz,” said the jogger who was scared witless. The gal looked like she had bled out…

Tears brimming in her eyes, Kristin stubbornly kept dialing Rhett’s number.

Finally, on the third try, Rhett picked up. “Hello?”

His voice was detached, weary with a hint of gravel.

“Rhett…” Kristin’s voice shook with emotion, thick with the verge of tears, but she couldn’t get the rest out.

On the other end, Rhett hitched his breath and bolted upright. Tentatively, he asked, “Where are you?”

It was Kristin.

He recognized her voice.

“I’m at…” Kristin asked weakly, her vision turning black.

The jogger quickly took the phone and added, “We’re at the outskirts on the Road 306. Your friend’s in bad shape, all bloody. Should I rush her to the hospital?”

“Stop the bleeding, I’m on my way.

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up, Rhett call an ambulance, grabbed his car keys from

something bad

had shown up in Crescendo Town,

been with James, Rhett didn’t think things would go south.

breath, Rhett drove like a bat out of hell to the

had said she was covered in blood…

got there, the ambulance hadn’t arrived yet.

he saw a shivering figure curled up

white as a sheet like a paper

Her f

tops frozen to

eyes, void of life, caught sight of Rhett stepping out of the car,

tears.

came running through the headlights like a god come to

that the gods

it was only

She was well aware

“Rhett…” Kristin croaked.

front

coat and wrapped it around her, pulling her into his arms. “The ambulance is

Kristin could let go and pass out. She

had come,

hope. She thought if Rhett didn’t show up, she’d just take her life. That way, the Turner family, the Haywood family, and

But Rhett came…

growing fainter, Kristin slumped in Rhett’s

so warm.

stopped short because of

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a Crescendo Town night, when even puddles froze solid, she sat there barefoot, waiting

afraid, it’ll

far away but crystal

was so gentle.

she snuggled closer into his

stay conscious. She’d lost

Kristin was so

she sobbed, her tears

asking the messenger from hell how much longer she had to

“You’re not guilty.”

Kristin

that moment, as if being torn apart by countless hands from hell, she seemed to hear redemption.

held Kristin

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