Rescued by the SEAL by Lydia Hall

Author:Lydia Hall [Hall, Lydia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-09-20T00:00:00+00:00

16

LANDON

“Oh, my God.” Of all the sights that I expected to walk in and see in my father’s room, this was not it. I actually have to blink a few times to see if I’ve lost my mind or if this is actually happening, but nothing changes in front of me. Nothing at all. “Dad.”

I bend down near him and almost reach out to touch him, but I have to force myself not to at the very last minute. If I touch his lifeless body, it won’t do anything good. He’s too blue to come back to life now, and that bullet wound through his head looks pretty life-ending. Plus, I’ll be tampering with evidence and getting my fingerprints everywhere. Someone needs to be caught for this, and I don’t want to be the reason that doesn’t happen. No way. My father might not have been the best man alive, but I don’t think a bullet through his skull is the answer. I might not be able to change that, but I can help someone get caught.

“Fuck, Dad, this is messed up.” I don’t like looking at him like this. He seems smaller somehow in his pool of blood. How the fuck did no one hear this going on? How did no one know or spot this afterward? Is everyone in this apartment block so afraid of being blamed for this that they were too scared to do anything? Would their criminal records put them at risk? I guess so if I’m worried about putting myself in the firing line because we didn’t always have the best relationship. “Dad, why are you dead?”

I rake my fingers through my hair as the emotion begins to get to me. When I think back to the day everything changed, when I learned that my parents weren’t decent people but criminals who pushed Heather and her father away, I wonder what I could have done differently. Maybe if I hadn’t walked away and I’d helped them, they could be better people now. My father wouldn’t be dead and I wouldn’t have to contact my mom in jail to tell her what’s happened. Things could be so different.

“I’m sorry if this is my fault,” I whisper pathetically at him. “I never wanted you to get hurt. Never, ever. Even though I punched you and yelled at you about Heather, and to be honest, I haven’t really ever had the kindest thoughts about you, but I wouldn’t have wished this on you. Really, all I ever wanted was for you to get better. But I didn’t help.”

My heart sinks so low I could scream. Maybe there wasn’t anything that I could have done, but at the same time, now I’ll never know. I’m never going to have the opportunity to find out whether I could make a difference. I gave up. Seeing Dad like this makes me never want to give up on another human being again. It makes me want to be so much better…

“Dad, I’m going to get the cops here now,” I promise him.

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