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I shrugged. “I guess I’m as ready as I’ll ever be.”

“About that…” Wake said as he moved in closer to us, speaking up so that the other half of our group would hear. “That’s why I’m here. Why I met you at this weird place with pudgy mermaids and bat houses and shit. Turns out, Travis decided not to go along with his trial after all. He hung himselfin his cell this morning. Guards found him as they were about to prepare to move him to the courthouse.”

“Ten bucks says the shitty sheriff has one hundred percent everything to do with that,” Shine grumbled. “Fuck.”

“Fuck,” Bram agreed. “That’s just bullshit.”

But, for me, that was the only closure that I needed.

I looked blankly at all the bats that were snuggled up in their bat houses, then turned to look at my husband.

And felt nothing but relief.

Everything that had been in this world to harm me was finally gone.

There was nothing left that could hurt me.

Nothing left to stop me from living my life exactly how I wanted it but me.

“It’s over,” I said to the man that was holding our son against his chest.

Bram gave me a lopsided grin and said, “So it is.”

“What the hell are you going to do now?” Wake asked curiously. “Thinkin’ about coming back to Florida?”

I looked at my friend and shook my head. “Actually? I’m gonna do something crazy.”

He frowned. “What’s that?”

I licked my lips. “I think I’m going to become a medical doctor.”

CHAPTER 30

Not everyone is going to think you’re gorgeous, amazing and magical. They’re wrong, though. Dickheads.

-Text from Bram to Dory

DORY

Eight months later

“Did you know that if you’re in a high velocity car accident, you need to scream and pee? Because both of those organs can explode.”

“Darlin’,” Bram said with a hint of laughter in his voice. “If you’re in a high velocity accident, you don’t need to worry about your bladder or lungs exploding. You need to worry about your head not whippin’ straight off your body.”

He had a point.

A very good one, might I add.

But still…

“It’s just what I read in my book. That your bladder and lungs can explode during an accident.” I shrugged.

This doctor thing was hard.

I never thought I’d get into the program to begin with. I mean, I was just applying because my brain and my heart were, for once, in line with each other. And I thought… what can it hurt?

And here I am, eight months later, in my first semester of medical school.

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