All Chapters of The Last Vermont: Loving Maddison Alaine (GL): Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

LEONA'S POVI sat across from the pavement, looking into the distant forest over the fence. My mind was a whirlwind of thoughts—ones I wanted to have and ones I didn’t.What had I done?! It was supposed to be a secret, something that should never come out, my feelings for Maddy should never be known.Maddy was my best friend, she was tall, fiesty and absolutely outgoing. She had beautiful green eyes with auburn hair that defied the laws of gravity.She was curvy and endowed in the best places possible. But she was also the love of my life.God, even thinking about it made me want to laugh at myself.Because it wasn't like in the movies. There was no grand moment, no dramatic realization with a swelling soundtrack.It was just Maddy being Maddy and me being absolutely powerless against it.It was the way she'd show up at my door unannounced with food because she "had a feeling" I hadn't eaten. The way she'd grab my face with both hands when she was making a point, completely unbothered

LEONA'S POVReynolds Miller.He was the driver!I felt my head take a 360 spin as I tried to ground myself in the realization that my best friend could be dead and it would be because of her shitty ex boyfriend.I soon snapped out my realization and rushed forward to help Maddy, who was actively being squeezed by car against the cafe windows.Tears started rolling down my cheeks before I could stop them, she was still conscious but barely breathing.“Maddy…” I slurred. “Please stay with me okay. I’ll get help now, just don’t give up on me now…please…please.” I burst into tears and scrambled for my phone, trying to make a call despite my shaking hands.I quickly got on the line and dialed 911. “Hello…I…my…she’s hurt. Maddy is dying” I tried to talk between tears.“Hey, hey. Calm down, breathe and tell me what’s happening.” The dispatch caller said, trying to calm me down, but nothing could calm me down other than seeing Maddy well and unharmed again.“It was a truck, it hit her. She’s

LEONA’S POVI didn’t sleep that night, I sat on my kitchen floor with my back against the cabinets, staring at nothing actually, replaying the moments in my head. It should have felt enough but for some reason, it didn’t.By morning I tried to convince myself I could still fix this. I showered, changed, and drove straight back to the hospital because that was the only place I needed to be right now. Maddy’s room was quiet except for the constant beeping sounds of the machines keeping track of her. I sat in the same chair I’d cried in the day before and took her“Morning, love,” I said, hoping she would respond. I don’t know how long I sat there, but I knew that it was long enough. Two officers walked in without knocking, and I knew deep down within me that Mr. Adams wasn’t one of them.“Leona Vermont?” The taller one spoke out loud, even though it wasn’t really a question.I stood slowly, still holding Maddy’s hand. “That’s me.”“You’re under arrest for assault, unlawful possession

LEONA’S POVMy hands started shaking so hard I nearly dropped it.She was awake and alive, somewhere out there, past all these locked doors and white walls with people who would rather medicate the truth out of me than believe it, Maddison Alaine had opened her eyes again.I pressed the photograph to my chest, tears sliding hot and silent down my face as I let myself feel something other than fear, it felt like hope and heaven knew I was this close to jumping to my highest.I flipped the photograph over with trembling fingers, and my breath caught somewhere in my throat as I saw four words, written in an unfamiliar handwriting.‘She doesn’t remember you.’+++++I didn’t sleep after that, I didn’t think I even tried to sleep and neither did I give a flying fuck, I sat with my back against the wall of my room, the photograph hidden beneath the thin mattress where I had shoved it the second I heard footsteps outside my door.‘She doesn’t remember you.’ Those words kept replaying in my

LEONA’S POV“You don’t want to do this,” I said, low, gripping the tray tighter.“I’ve wanted this for days now.” Ingrid’s voice sounded so lustful. “Ever since they brought you in… oh gosh, I have always wanted you mama. I want to make you scream on top of your voice and call my name proudly.” She stepped forward. “Finally, you’re mine tonight.” A dark smile crept on her face. “I remember how you usually scream at the doctors or fight five of them at once. I watched through the window and I thought, finally… finally someone real.”“I’m not what you think I am.”“You’re exactly who I think you are.” She took another step, and the light caught the object in her hand again, a piece of plastic, filed down to something with intent. “Everyone else in here is broken and empty. You’re not empty baby girl, you’re still fighting and I can feel it coming off you.” My back was flat against the wall now with nowhere left to go and for one terrifying second I was seven years old again in my mind