A series of attacks shakes Los Angeles. The emergency services are activated. But who is this woman that the one-eighteen finds on each of his interventions? Does she have a part of the responsibility in the horror which shakes the city?
This fanfic...
When you keep a secret afloat for so long, it becomes everyday life,routine, but you quickly forget that anything can upset it at any time.
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Chapter 1
– If should we leave? she blurted out suddenly.
– To leave? Buck wondered.
– You're on vacation?
– Yes, he replied. Until the new year.
– So, we're leaving?
– Where do you want to go?
– Just ride, change city, state. See the snow, meet real cowboys, spend the New Year in a casino...
– Okay, Buck had agreed.
– Truly?
– This is what you want? That we escape, that we think a little of ourselves, of our couple, that we do things together?
– Yes.
– Me too, he agreed. So we're going to go to the snow, meet cowboys and spend the New Year at the casino.
*******
Holly splashed water on her face.
She was worried. Everything had happened so quickly over the past few months, almost in the blink of an eye. She couldn't believe that barely four months had passed since she met Buck.
Four intense and wonderful months.
Four months of passion.
Four months of love.
He had allowed her to heal, to move forward, to glimpse the future and to rebuild herself. The end of the tunnel existed.
His name was Evan Buckley.
*******
– What is happening? she had asked him.
She had come back to him when she saw him sitting on the ground in the snow at the Aspen ski resort. He was taking off his skis.
– You got hurt?
– No, he had amused himself. Rightly.
He looked up at her with a smile. That smile literally made her melt. She crouched beside him, frowning.
– I already have a titanium plate in my leg, he explained to her. No way, that I start collecting them.
– Does that mean we have to move on to the next step?
– No, there's no reason, he told her. If you want to ski...
