Chapter 31:The Call

Jaxson

If the earth would open and bury me alive it would hurt less, then hearing her struggling to control her tears and breathing. Shit its hard for me to get my own breath listening to it helplessly on the other end of the phone. I had no idea who was calling when I saw the number, but something told me to pause my meeting and answer. I am glad I did. Now if only she could tell me where she was and what was wrong. When she could finally talk, I heard her repeat about the car backfire. At first, then she said she hit the ground. A picture starting forming in my head I didn’t like at all. I needed her to finish talking. So, I asked what she meant.

“Tony, he knocked me to the ground.” She took a deep breath and said the next part so fast I barely caught it. “It wasn’t backfire. It was fire, like open fire gunshots. He saved me but he got hit instead. And they won’t tell me anything.”

Everything froze. The very air in my lungs refused to move, all the sound around me with the meeting s