Back To You

4- Am I a bad person?

Hailey's P.O.V.

We just got off the plane, driving to I don't even know where and I didn't ask. I didn't care. I couldn't believe this was happening, my world around me came crashing down in a matter of a few days.

"I just got a text from Lopez. 'Hide Hailey, Carlos is coming for her. I'm so sorry!' Well Shit?" Jusin groaned, running his hands down his face.

The next day, Justin got another message from one of his bosses saying that Officer Lopez's car blew up with him inside. Justin said the time of death was around the same time he had sent that warning text to Justin.

I knew it was Carlos' doing and it was a matter of time before he found me.

I was right.

When Carlos heard I turned against him and the United States was building a case to indict him, he did exactly what Amy thought he would do and sent his men after me.

I was at the safe house for just a few days before Carlos' men showed up. The agents that were helping watch over the place we were staying at let Justin know Carlos' men were in town so we needed to get out.

"Hailey, let's go." Justin demanded.

"I'm grabbing my fucking picture first." I yanked my arm out of his hands and ran into my room. I grabbed the picture of my parents and put it in my back pocket.

Amy and I ran to the car, where Justin helped me in and he sped off.

The moment we left Carlos' house, Justin turned my phone over to the feds. Carlos had bought that for me and they figured he would be able to track me with it. Amy gave me one of her outfits in the car so I could ditch mine and since I insisted on the picture of my parents, Amy took it out of the frame just in case there was a bug or camera on it.

"How was he able to find us so fast?" Amy asked Justin.

"Danté." I answered. I knew it was him. He was a tracker and one of the best Carlos once told me.

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The FBI now had me set up in another safehouse in South Carolina. Justin and Amy were still assigned to stay with me full time. Right now, they were the only ones I trusted and if they weren't with me I was going to bolt. Believe me, I thought about it.

We've been here for a few days and I couldn't seem to sleep or relax. I put down my cup of coffee as I stared down at my left hand, rubbing my thumb across my bare finger that once held my engagement ring.

I felt naked without it.

"Hailey, are you okay?" Amy asked as she came into the living room.

"The man I thought I was in love with is trying to kill me. What do you think?"

She sighed, sitting down in the chair next to me, not saying anything else.

I liked Amy, I really did. She was nice, genuinely seemed to care about me and I was being rude.

"Am I a bad person?" I asked her, breaking our silence.

"Why would you think that?"

"How could I have ever loved a man like that?"

She gave me a sad smile, but I didn't give her time to answer me.

"I watched him kill someone and I was going to keep it quiet. That makes me just as guilty as Carlos."

"I understand your thinking, but you're wrong-"

I shook my head, I wasn't wrong. "I can still see that poor kid's face. The noises he made and his last breath will forever haunt me, Amy. Just because I didn't pull that trigger and kill him doesn't mean I'm not just as guilty."