“Child? I’m solely two years youthful than you, Ivy. My mother advised me to come back over right here and watch the home. So right here I’m,” he says and takes a drink. “You on the lookout for Stone?”

“Yeah, and why are you being so bizarre?” I’m annoyed now. Who does Grey assume he’s? “The place’s Miss Martha?”

Grey sits on the roll-top desk beside the liquor cupboard. “Stone’s not right here. And I don’t know the place the fuck Miss Martha is. She didn’t are available in right this moment. Want she was right here, I’m ravenous.”

“Stone’s not right here?” My coronary heart stops. “Have you learnt the place he’s? Is he in jail?” My legs begin shaking. My physique grows immediately chilly on the concept of Stone behind bars as a result of he was defending me.

“It was so fucking silly. I ought to have simply kicked the asshole within the nuts and known as it a day.”

“He’s not in jail,” Grey says like he’s taunting me.

“He’s not? That’s good. The place is he?”

“Not right here,” Grey solutions, and it simply pisses me off extra. “He’s not right here on the ranch. And even in Texas.”

“What?” I shake my head in disbelief. “What do you imply he’s not in Texas? I used to be right here with him final evening. There was a battle,” I clarify, however Grey holds up his hand and stops me. He’s surprisingly boastful for a sixteen-year-old. “What?”

“I do know all concerning the battle, Ivy. That dude didn’t make it. Died final evening.”

“What? After Peaches took me dwelling?”

“Apparently.” He takes one other swig of his whiskey.

My abdomen drops, and I really feel like I’d cross out. Grey jumps up, catches me earlier than I hit the bottom, and leads me to the couch the place I’ve spent numerous hours with Stone. The conclusion hits me that the whole lot has modified now.

“I’ve to examine on him,” I mumble, pushing myself up from the couch. However Grey’s subsequent phrases cease me in my tracks.

“Don’t hassle,” he says coldly. “Gunnar and Peaches despatched him away to put low whereas they deal with issues quietly.”

My thoughts races with questions, and panic units in as I take into consideration Stone being exiled due to me. “The place did they ship him?” I ask frantically.

Grey shrugs, unconcerned with my misery. “I don’t know, Ivy. They solely inform us what we have to know.”

“It’s not truthful!” I cry out, pulling out my telephone and texting Stone once more for a solution. As if on cue, a notification dings from the kitchen.

I rush into the kitchen and discover Stone’s keys and telephone sitting on the desk. “What the hell, Grey? The place is Peaches?” I demand, sending her a frantic textual content as effectively.

Are you able to inform me what’s happening with Stone? Please?

My fingers shake with concern and anger as I anticipate a response. The silence is deafening, and I can really feel my entire world crumbling round me. This may’t be taking place. To not Stone. Not due to me.

“He’s my pal too, Ivy. However he has to put low till Peaches and Gunnar determine this shit out. Once they get again, I’ll ask my mother if she is aware of something. However for now, you could chill.”

However I can’t chill. My coronary heart feels prefer it’s being crushed in a vice, shattered into one million items.

He’s my finest pal.

And he’s gone. He didn’t even say goodbye.

Shit. How am I going to outlive life in Opey with out him? If not for our friendship, I’d have skipped city the minute I bought my diploma.

I plop again down on the couch, watching my telephone. I’ll sit right here till Peaches will get again. I can’t consider that is taking place.

I completely get it now. How life can flip in only a second. The second that dude’s head hit the pavement, our entire life went up in smoke.

CHAPTER THREE

Stone – Current

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