Page 101 of Life To My Flight

Then there were the ones of me naked.

Or the ones of me and Cleo pressed against each other in an intimate embrace.

The ones that really got me, though, were the ones of my friends.

Cody and his husband. Their daughter.

Cody’s mother.

Cleo.

Cleo’s sisters.

The club.

And Audrey. The girl that was raped…all because of me.

There were pictures of her on the ground with her pants and panties around her ankles.

Some of her on her hands and knees with her face smashed into the grill of a car.

I closed my eyes, not wanting to see anything else.

“This can’t be happening,” I cried, finally letting the tears spill over.

Cleo turned us, and started heading down the back stairs. “We’ll go to your place tonight, and then tomorrow I’ll get some security sensors and a generator so the system doesn’t go down again.”

I nodded, numbly. “Okay.”

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Cleo

I walked out of Rue’s apartment door, closing it quietly behind me before turning the corner and coming to a stop on the side of the building.

Loki, Trance, Torren, Sebastian, Silas, Tunnel, and Kettle were all there, waiting for me.

“She asleep?” Loki asked once I’d made it close enough to them.

I nodded. “Yeah. She wasn’t doing too well.”

“Audrey wants to come by in the evening, if it’s all right,” Tunnel said quietly.

I nodded once. “She’d like that.”

Audrey started back to work only a few days ago, and she seemed to be doing just fine.

Rue hadn’t been there for those two, she ended up on opposite shifts than Audrey and that was something she planned on rectifying tomorrow when she went in to work.

It’d be a long day for her with only three hours of sleep, but she’d said that she wanted to go in, regardless, and I wasn’t one to argue.

Usually.

“Got some prospects on the friends place, as well as your sisters,” Silas rumbled.

“Thanks,” I said. “I called Meredith’s husband and Mikayla’s husband while I was inside. They’re going to keep an eye out.”

“What now?” Sebastian asked.

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