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nervous with the out-of-it look on his face. “Do you need to go to a<br />

hospital?”<br />

He shook his head slowly. “No.” His voice was stronger<br />

<strong>no</strong>w, which was slightly reassuring. Slightly.<br />

I gave him one more look-over. His skin wasn’t bruised as<br />

far as I could see, and the hand that had been holding the walkietalkie<br />

didn’t look burned. His eyes were beginning to focus more<br />

and his voice had sounded better. <strong>The</strong> color was still drained from<br />

his face, but he was always pale, so that wasn’t a huge issue.<br />

“Okay.” I finally shifted my focus just as everyone came<br />

striding quickly down the driveway.<br />

“We advised Mr. Johansson that it’s best if he and his family<br />

stayed elsewhere tonight,” Richard informed me. “He’s going to<br />

meet his wife and son at his mother’s house. As for us, we’re going<br />

to go to my house and talk about what just happened.”<br />

“Are you okay to drive?” I asked Tucker.<br />

He blinked dazedly. “Yes.”<br />

I turned away from him and gave Richard a worried look. I<br />

didn’t think it was good for him to try in this condition. Luckily, he<br />

picked up on what I was trying to tell him and said, “I think that<br />

Ethan will drive you and Chelsea back to my place for <strong>no</strong>w, if that’s<br />

okay.”<br />

Tucker just <strong>no</strong>dded.<br />

If I’d k<strong>no</strong>wn how to operate a manual, I would have offered<br />

to drive us myself. But as it was, I was grateful to have Ethan there<br />

with us. This way if there was anything seriously wrong with Tucker<br />

it wouldn’t be on my shoulders alone. I had never seen anything like<br />

this happen before. I didn’t k<strong>no</strong>w what the appropriate reaction was.<br />

Once the cars were loaded up, I climbed into the backseat of<br />

the car and the guys took the front. As Ethan pulled a K-turn, he<br />

said, “Okay, guys, spill. What the hell happened in there?”<br />

“Did you get the video camera?” I asked. I couldn’t pull my<br />

eyes away from the house. Half of me expected the entire thing to<br />

go up in flames.<br />

“Yeah, why?”<br />

“Because you’re <strong>no</strong>t going to believe this unless you see it.”<br />

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