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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hanging up, Rhett call an ambulance, grabbed his car keys from the table, and

feeling something bad had

up in Crescendo Town, he knew they might not

had been with James, Rhett

drove like a bat out of hell

had said she

got there, the

saw a shivering figure

as white as a sheet like

Her f

frozen to a

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

tears.

the headlights like

gods hadn’t forsaken her after all?

only a fleeting moment.

couldn’t protect her forever. She was well aware

“Rhett…” Kristin croaked.

front

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

pass out. She had

had come, really.

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

But Rhett came…

breath growing fainter, Kristin

so

because of ice–cold Kristin.

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even

it’ll be alright.”

far away

was so gentle.

into his embrace,

sleep now,” Rhett urged her to stay

was

sobbed, her tears scalding hot. She was exhausted.

from hell how

“You’re not guilty.”

keep her eyes open, Kristin heard someone say she was innocent.

moment, as if being torn apart by countless hands from hell, she seemed to

arrived, and Rhett held Kristin close, never letting

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