Chapter 127 –  Sweet But Not Sweet

(Finn’s POV)

I had been sitting on the floor for more than an hour and wished the teenager beside me would stop blabbering. If not for Jolene, the waiting room would be an eerie place to stay, but with her, as soon as we were left alone, I bet if ghosts were real, they had fled already, not wanting to listen to her stories.

Jolene was happy to oblige Sky to accompany me while he left to deal with Chelsea’s family. Perhaps the reason why I let Jolene talk was because it somehow assured me I would stop seeing Chelsea pulling the trigger on herself.

My brother kept telling me that the doctors did their best to save her, but the chances of her surviving were less after hours of treating her self-inflicted gunshot wound. Sighing, I thought of what she said before pulling the trigger.

“If you will not be mine, Finn, then let’s just all be miserable.”

If Lexi would not survive, then Chelsea would be successful in making me miserable for the rest of my life.

Jolene began to prattle on