"Eve, are you okay?Should I get a doctor?"
"Ada."I reach out and feel the back of her head.She places both hands gently on my arm as I feel her scalp.
"Yeah.Yeah, Eve.It's me.We're okay.Okay?"
I feel it.I feel the bare patch of skin where she was once in a basement knocked to the ground by a killer.This killer.
"It was you."Tears burn my eyes, and bile rises in my throat."I'm sorry.I'm so sorry."My heart pounds in my chest, threatening to explode.
I have to go.I have to get out of here.I have to protect them.All of them.From me.It's me.I'm the threat.
CHAPTER 48
Adam
"What do you mean she'sgone, Ace?Where the fuck is she?"Ace is frantic.She isn't making sense.
"She's gone.I don't know where she went.I tried to run after her, but she's too damn fast.The crowd was so thick, and I lost her."She starts crying and running her hands through her hair."I'm sorry, Adam.I'm so fucking sorry.Something isn't right.She went somewhere."
"Yeah.I know.That's the problem.Where did she go?"
"No.No.Not like that.In her head.She went somewhere in her head.She was here and then, she just wasn't.I don't know what happened."
Cotton steps in and grabs Ace by the arms."What happened when she checked out?What happened before that?"
"Umm...okay."She looks away from him, thinking back."I fell.Some guys ran into me...and I fell.I hit the ground hard, and my beer went everywhere.That's what happened to my face."Ace gestures to her face that is clearly stained red from her dyed drink.
Cotton lets out a heavy breath and closes his eyes.
"What?What the fuck happened Cotton?"I'm furious that I even have to ask.I need answers right now.
Cotton looks at me, then."Look at her, man.Look at her face.She fell and got covered in this shit.It was probably spilling out all around her on the ground.This shit is blood red.I don't know what, but it must have triggered something.She only checks out when there's a crowd and something bad happens.This place was crawling with people and Ace looked like she was covered in blood."
"That's not all though."Ace has everyone's attention again."She had this terrified look in her eyes, and she touched the back of my head.It was like she knew right where my scar was."
What?No.She couldn't.How could she?
