Nixx
JJ’s message stayed lit on the screen in my hand.
Are you okay?
Of all the things she could have asked, that was what she wanted to know first.
I looked across the SUV at Benny and had no f*****g idea how to answer her.
Marcus still had both hands pressed hard against Benny’s side, using his weight to keep pressure on the wound while Bryce drove fast enough that every curve shoved us against the seats.
Benny hadn’t opened his eyes since we left the property, but his chest was still moving beneath his shirt.
I kept watching it anyway, counting every shallow rise and fall because apparently my brain had decided if I looked away for even a second, he might stop.
Millie hadn’t let go of me either. She sat sideways across my lap with the stuffed rabbit trapped between us, one fist
