Cops had shot Xaiver several times and I looked at my son. I felt for a pulse but there wasn't one. Blood from my son's chest puddled underneath me as I held him to my chest. All the deaths Xaiver caused me mde the tears flow down my face. I rocked back and forth as I sobbed into my son's shoulder.

"Ma'am?" I looked up at an officer who stood over me.

"What is the relation to the man?"

"He's my ex-boyfriend." I said letting my tears continue to flow down my face.

"Is the boy your son?" I nodded and looked down at Owen's lifeless body.

"Where do you live?"

"Huntington Beach, California." I said still holding onto my child.

"I'll have the body flown out to the mortuary there. The paramedics need to look at your shoulder." I nodded and 2 sets of paramedics came into the cabin and over to me. One man took my soon from my arms and pronounced him dead and another looked at my shoulder but it was only grazed. I watched as they put him into a body bag and took him out of the house.

"Ma'am there's a young child outside asking for you."

"My daughter." I said wiping my face with the back of my hand. The officer went to the door and brought my daughter in and she ran over to me. I held her close to me and stood to my feet. I walked out of the cabin and put Devon into the car. I popped open the trunk and grabbed a new shirt and carefully put it on. An officer took my bloody shirt.

"Ma'am, I'm sorry about your son. I have 2 kids of my own and I have no idea how you're feeling but I just want you and your daughter to have a safe trip back to California. I've already called the mortuary in Huntington Beach and they'll be waiting for him. Do you want the man's body to go too?"

"No sir. Just my son." I said opening the driver's side door.

"I need some contact information so the funeral home can call you when your son arrives." I nodded and gace the officer all the information he needed before getting into the car and driving towards California. How could this happen to my baby?

He had so much left in his life. I won't be able to see him graduate high school, get married, or have children of his own. How am I supposed to tell anyone about his death? Tears threatened to spill over again as I drove up I shook them away. I pulled into a rest stop and sat there for a few minutes. I wanted to scream my head off but I don't want to wake up Devon or scare her half to death. I looked down at my phone and I wanted so badly to call Val and tell her the news but just couldn't. I started up the car and went back to driving to my home.
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Morning came and I got Devon and I some breakfast and stopped at a rest area to eat and stretch our legs. Devon and I sat down at a picnic table and ate. When we finished, I threw away the trash and I put Devon back into the car.

"I've got to call Val. I'll be right outside the car." I said and she nodded. She's been quiet this whole trip going back to Huntington. I took out my phone and dialed Val's number.

"Hello?"

"Val it's me." I said taking a deep breath.

"Rae, where are you? Everybody is worried."

"I'm on my way back home...with Devon." I said letting the tears flow down and choking on my won words.

"What's wrong?"

"Owen's dead." I said choking back tears.

"What?" Val's voice was hushed.

"Xaiver shot Owen. Owen was trying to protect me." I said crying more.

"Oh my god...Are you and Devon alright?"

"Devon is perfectly fine. Xaiver grazed my shoulder." I said wiping my face for the fiftyth time.

"Alright. Do you want me to tell the guys or you?"

"Would you tell them? It took me forever to tell you." I said getting back into the car.

"I will. You drive safely."

I hung up the phone and started driving again. I would look up ever so often and see Devon either asleep or just staring out the window being so quiet. This is going to be the hardest time in not just my life but also Devon's life.

Notes

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I cried when I wrote this chapter...