nxamaro:
It was okay. She wasn’t here having to hide how she really felt at this moment. He understood only too well what it meant to witness such horrible things. If she didn’t feel like smiling, he’d be the last to force the girl having to.
“Yeah.” He nodded meeting the petite brunette’s eyes. In fact they’d just been speaking on the phone before Nick came inside to ask if she needed anything. “I told him you’re worried about him. But he needs to do this by himself. To make sure they don’t fuck anything up, you know.” He explained her father’s reasons. “He owes your mom that.”
Her jaw tightened ever so slightly at the mention of her mother. “He wouldn’t have had to owe her shit if he’d made sure she didn’t go home that night.” She wasn’t really as angry with her dad as it came across, but it frustrated her that he’d said that. What about the things he owed Bella? Things like not ending up on an autopsy table for example.Â
She found herself wiping a wet streak off her cheek, legs still close to her body. “He should let someone else do it.” That’s what her mother would’ve wanted - not for him to run around thinking he was invincible.












