The Billion Dollars Revenge

apartment—even if he had a bandage around his chest and another slightly above

our locks,” Christine said,

st struck like lightening. He groane

ushed to him, “Wha

hand, stopping her from touchi

need is

was a sligh

hing sound of the tires and the blue and red lights. She could hear her name in a dist

isti

b shouted her nam

m. She rubbed her sweaty forehead. “I am okay. I am

and raised his eyebr

are going to ask me if I a

gged and it was on his fa

beside him. “W

, just, umm, just an accident,” Jacob said, loo

one who knows some

ow to break

it like th

ly was the pla

ought of that yet.”

prisingly to him, it didn’t hu

f humor. To see why you haven’t cashe

been less than a d

hours. And not a lot of pe

want to mention the Accident again. “...look like thi

ur checks safe.” She nodded towards t

nto my house to tell me that. I

ly came to ask when you’d need the lawyer for the d

,” Jacob said,

d w

and it’s finished.” Jacob made sure

teresting. Whe

od

after the a

it m

are

et my shit together before j

and they both lo

reach it,

I ca

he said, helpi

f it wasn’t time to pay for her treatment. And

cob raised his head and she

and, with a deep breath, enough to ma

d! Can I speak to... I’d be there tomorrow. I don’t understand why you c

with him. Her blonde was gone and the warmth of her presence now cold. Her

n said as she grabbed her pur

ays feared to be there when she took her last breath and the odds are better when

voice now sounds a littl

at it was, what the doctor called it. He

like a shrug, “Fo

ver had been the type. “I have enough money now, Riley,” Jacob said,

.Ja

t you; we ca

nterjected. “Y

ut

s stage four now. I don’t want to think about it. I want to do ne

ley

Jen downloaded for me. It pl

. Stop.” He couldn’t st

for Jacob to see she was prepared.

ou ever feel like you could have done something different? It

ping his tears. “

past two years, you’ve been living your life for me

sn’t enoug

e. Even though her eyes were clearly fighting b

asn’t going to fight it. “She'

. I wish she

nd he said softl

a very busy person.” Riley smiled like she was remembering things: “Tel

ed a tear

ac

er that Madi and he were no longer to

sorry

ou should really stop making me teary.

seen Game of Thrones," Jaco

is a death threat

ed, and then ca

r hands a little, and J

you’d have fun, you’d travel, you’d go to movies, and you'd do all the

dn’t, Jacob nodd

I wish for, and if you d

ley,” Jacob

t silent for a f

, “I love

ed. “Shut

been a few hours of pretending that he wasn’t hurting every time he moved— he couldn’t g

the driver looked back to where he wa

from a rare view, he