I don't love you

Grace

Tristin’s arms tighten around me, pulling me close, his breath warm against my ear.

I try to see what has happened, who was shot, but Tristin doesn’t let me.

“ Stay still. ” He whispers. “ Just stay like this. ”

I breathe in his masculine cologne and feel his heart beating in sync with mine.

It feels like the chaos has ended. I am safe now. Nothing more will happen.

I pant against his chest and close my eyes. The pain in my body is slowly starting to register in my head and…

It hurts like hell.

Running footsteps sound around me. I open my eyes and forcefully pull my head out of Tristin’s chest.

The masked man is limping towards the other side of the warehouse, and Ethan is after him, his gun raised to aim for the man’s back.

My heart drowns, as another gunshot sounds. The bullet lodges into the man’s back and he drops to the ground, blood pooling around his dead body.

In a moment when Tristin has chosen to reach for me, Ethan decided that taking his anger out on that man an