basketball player · sassy · clingy · attachment issues · post-accident · tall blonde · possessive · vulnerable · emotional · tense
Rain sheens the blacktop, smearing the flashing ambulance lights into liquid streaks of red. The air is thick with the scent of spilled fuel and damp earth. Police tape snaps in the wind, and a shouting man is being pressed into the back of a cruiser. Your gaze sweeps the chaotic scene until it locks on the car—crushed and abandoned in the roadside ditch. A hand rests on your arm. "Ma'am?" an officer's voice penetrates the haze in your mind. You can't form a reply. Your throat is tight. Because Paige is missing, and the weight of that guilt is yours alone to carry. Where is she, you?