Chapter 42: Claimed me

Stacy:

Callaghan’s words echoed in my head as I walked out of the Packhouse. He loves her and I know he wasn’t lying, I have seen him drink those rums in his room for the past few days since Lydia went missing and he had constantly played that song that Lydia normally plays when she is down, “on my own,”

My tears drop when I remember the part, “…all I see is me and him forever and forever and I know it’s all in my mind, that I am talking to myself and not to him, and although I know that he is blind. Still, I say, there is a way for us, I love him…”

The more the Lyrics play in my head, the more tears fall in my eyes but I don’t think this is all about Callaghan and Lydia, I think the lyrics are talking about Brake and me. In a way.

“Stacy…” I heard Brake’s voice, he had just gotten out of his car at the border, I ran into his hands and buried my face in his chest while I let my tears flow, I cried on his chest with his hand wrapped around me, “Baby, are you alright?”

“I just want