CHAPTER 191

DARLENE

My heart had not stopped pounding in my chest since the scene in Alexander’s parent's room. I watched William McKenzie pace the cool tiles of the living area, his rubber uggs slapping loudly on the floor as he paced from end to end, the bright wash of fluorescent light making his shock of blonde-dark hair appear ghastly.

“What the hell is taking the boy so long?” Alexander’s father whispered and I felt Alexander squeeze my hand tightly, turning to see the clenched line of his jaw working silently.

I pricked his fingers with my pinkie, my heart thudding oddly in my chest when his almond-shaped green eyes swept down to me, the rage in his expression clouding over when he caught the pinched look on my face so that his other hand came around to wind through my hair, pressing my face into his hard shoulder before I felt his lips press into my hair and my heart warmed over.

“Should we tell them?” I whispered, knowing that his parents must have noticed the blood-soaked shirt I had bee