Random Acts by Jennifer Hebbard

Author:Jennifer Hebbard [Hebbard, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-11T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Parker suddenly stood, startling Dylan. “I need to go. I just need to be alone right now.” Without a backward glance, Parker left Dylan sitting alone on the couch contemplating what she should do next. Dylan stared after her, not attempting to follow. She knew that Parker needed time to process this on her own. Suddenly, Dylan felt angry. She felt the rage building up from her core and threatening to bubble over and outward. Why did this have to happen? Why now? Five years? He gets a parole hearing after a measly five years after killing two people in cold blood? Things seemed to be going so well and Parker had seemed more relaxed, more open recently. She was really making progress, and everyone could see it. And, now? If this didn't send Parker spiraling back to the worst tragedy in her life, nothing would. It wasn't fair, none of this was fair and that made Dylan so incredibly angry that she didn't know what to do with it all. She looked out the front window and watched the snow falling outside. It looked so soft and white and Dylan wondered how something that was so pure could even exist in this horrible, violent world. Everything looked so untouched under the snowy sky.

Dylan knew that the overly white snow covered up all the ugliness that lie beneath. The contradiction of it all was not lost on Dylan as she continued to stare out the window. She looked at the crumpled letter that still sat on the couch cushion next to her. Her first instinct was to throw it right in the trash and pretend that it had never arrived at all, but she knew she couldn't do that. Pandora's Box had already been opened and she only prayed that not all hope would be lost for Parker, or herself. She picked up the letter and tried to iron out the wrinkles with her hand. She placed it back in its envelope and stood and placed it on the coffee table. It was up to Parker what she wanted to do. Dylan o hoped that Parker didn't shut her out completely and would allow her to help Parker through this. Parker couldn't go through this alone, not again. Dylan had never felt so helpless in her entire life. She knew beyond a shadow of a doubt in that moment that she had fallen hopelessly in love with Parker Bennett and that scared her more than anything else in her life ever had.

Parker sat on the edge of her bed shaking. The tremors had started from her toes and worked their way up her entire body. Her skin almost felt like it was separating from her body. Her mind was strangely blank, yet her heart hammered so hard and fast in her chest that she wondered if she was about to have a heart attack. Her body’s autonomic fight or flight response had kicked into high gear. The problem with that was, there was no one there to fight and nowhere to run.

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