Page 108 of Forced Proximity
Eugene reacted before I could blink.
He pulled a gun from his pants and raised it.
I had the door shut and locked before he could do anything, but the sound of two gunshots filled the air.
Seconds after that, a third.
I closed my eyes as I leaned against the side of the door, knowing without seeing what I’d find on my doorstep.
“What was that?”
It was Dru.
Fuck.
There was a loud murmur of Jasper’s voice, then he said, “I called 9-1-1.”
I walked to my panel beside the stairs and looked outside, knowing what I would see, but deciding that I needed to see it just in case.
I was right.
There were three dead people on my porch.
Dru’s aunt. Dru’s sister. And Eugene.
Fuck.
I reached for Dru, who was standing there, still as a could be, staring at the carnage on my front porch.
This time I explained exactly what happened as I stared into Dru’s horror-filled eyes.
I never expected to meet Dru’s parents like this, but there I was, standing in front of Dru’s parents’ house, as Dru’s parents drove up the driveway.
It’d been a solid three hours since the incident on my front porch, and this was the first time that Dru had been able to get ahold of them since it’d happened. Roman, Dru’s dad, had left work early to go pick up Julie, Dru’s mom.
And they’d promised that they would get here as fast as they could.
We didn’t leave the house until it was time for Dru to go.
She’d been ready to leave to go see her brother, but I’d done my illegal acts and gotten a special request put on Romeo’s file that gave him permission to be seen today despite it not being a visitation day.
Unfortunately, we had a lot of shit to figure out.
Like two more funerals.
Though, luckily, that wouldn’t be something that I would be directly involved with.
I felt worse for Dru, though.
She would have to do this with her own sister and aunt.
And she hadn’t cried once since the entire show had gone down.
Dru had stared blankly at the wall for the last couple of hours, unless it was to pull out her phone and dial her parents.
Eventually they answered, and Dru had given a very condensed version of what happened and asked them to meet us at their home.
It’d gotten them here, but Dru had checked out.
