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realize what I saw? I’ll never get that image out of my head. And until I kill that son of a bitch, I’m gonna see his smirking grin everywhere I look.”
    Holly moved from her elbow to her back and started to cry again.
    “I’m sorry, Holly,” Will said, lowering his voice. “I just don’t understand how you expect me to forget about him and not want to go after him.”
    “I know you’re frustrated and angry, I just don’t want you to get hurt,” she said through a series of sniffs and gasps as she tried to stop crying.
    Will rolled over toward her and wiped the tears away from her cheeks. Then he leaned down and kissed her on the lips, running his hands through her hair.
    “I’m not going to get hurt. Neither are you, or Marcus, or anybody here.”
    She rubbed the stubble on his face and then leaned up far enough to kiss his mouth, running her fingertips on her other hand down his stomach.
    A familiar feeling returned to Will. One that he hadn’t even thought about since before he’d woken up in that tiny office at Element just days ago as the world had been turning to shit. Now, of all times, the slight burn came to him, and he couldn’t think of a better way to rid his tensions in this moment.
    He rolled over onto Holly and pulled the covers on top of them.
    ***
    About an hour later, Will stepped out of the room.
    Sarah, one of the nurses who worked at the hospital, was sitting in a chair just across the hall and looked up when he came out of the room.  
    “Hi,” she said.
    “Hey.”
    “Gabriel asked if someone could hang outside of your room.”
    “In case I ran away?”
    She blushed. “To let them know when you came out.”
    “Right,” he said, cracking a little smile. “I can go let them know myself. Where are they?”
    She pointed down the hall to his left. “Just down there and through that open door. There’s a break room back there, and everyone should be waiting.”
    “You want to walk with me down there and join us?” Will offered.
    Sarah shook her head. “I’ve seen a lot of messed up stuff today, even for a nurse. I think I just need to lie down for a little while.”
    “I understand.” He smiled at her and then started toward the break room.
    “I’m really sorry about your mother,” Sarah mumbled.
    Will stopped and stood still for a moment before he turned around. “Thank you.” He nodded and then continued, down the hall and through the open door.

CHAPTER THREE

    Jessica
    It had been a while since Jessica had eaten anything, and she finally felt hungry again. Everyone else in the hospital seemed to be just waiting on Will to come out of his room, and she had retreated to her own space to rest for a while. Now, she walked out of her room into an empty corridor and headed for the break room.
    When she walked into the break room, she was surprised to see everyone sitting inside, Will included.
    “Oh, hey,” she said. “Sorry.”
    She started to turn around until a voice stopped her.
    “Where’re you going?”
    Jessica turned around and saw that Gabriel was the one who’d asked the question.
    “I was hoping you’d stay,” he told her. “You’re part of this group now, so your input is important to the decisions we make.”
    “Oh,” Jessica said. “Okay.”
    She was still shy around the group. One would have thought that a hotel’s front desk clerk would have no problem being social and bonding with new people, but that wasn’t the case with Jessica. She was an introvert, and like most introverts, she gained energy when she was alone as opposed to being around other people. The job at the hotel had been just that: a job. The same way introverted lead singers of rock bands could jump on stage without missing a lyric or throwing up from nervousness, Jessica had been able to act her way through her job on most days.
    There was an open seat next to Will, and she took it.
    “We’re discussing what our next move is gonna be,” Marcus informed her.
    She felt a