CHAPTER 24

*REXFORD'S POV*

The ambulances have arrived. They take each body and put them in the cars. Lucy is still crying in the living room. She's on the floor not able to get up. How the fuck could I let this happen. I should've been there protecting her family. Fuck.

I don't want to cry. I don't do that. But seeing Lucy so broken hurts my heart. I move over to her as I get low to where she is crying.

I don't know what to do. When my mother died I had no one holding me, how do you comfort someone so broken. Whatever I say, it won't make her happy. So how will I fix her now?

I reach for her back rubbing it because that's what others do. I've seen it in movies. I want her to know that she has me. She isn't alone. But how will she believe that when she saw her family dead on the couch. She grabs my shirt and pulls her face towards my chest. Crying so, so freaking much."I...I need to know they are fine" she lets out sobbing. God how do I tell her that they are not fine. I think she knows that but