Riley

Chapter 48

Peter POV
What the heck is going on here. How is she alive? She looks so well, with a few scrapes on her face and arms, but well and cleanly dressed in a cream blouse and navy blue pants.

"Mom..." Riley says in a breath behind me.

Lorraine's eye water up as she pushes past me to get to Riley. I turn and see Riley trying to get up to her feet to stand, and wincing at the movement.

"No, baby girl. Stay just how you are." Lorraine says sternly.

Still in shock, I move to the couch and resume sitting, but not propping my leg up so that if Lorraine wants to sit, she can.

She kneels on the floor and takes Riley's head in her hands and puts her forehead to hers.

"I'm so glad your safe..." Lorraine says. I think she's crying.

They release and Lorraine looks at Riley's leg. "What happened?"

"Michael shot me. " Riley answers.

She looks Riley in the face at the mention of his name. "You know?"

"Yeaaaa." Riley says. I can tell hat she doesn't know what to say.

"I should kill that man." She says and starts muttering expletives under her breath

"Too late. " I answer and her head whips to the side to look at me.

"What do you mean?" She asks. Looking from me to Riley.

"I already killed him..." I answer with the shrug of my shoulders, not sure how she will react.

"And granddad?" She asks nervously.

"He's alive and safe. We went to the hospital and he's all good. He's going to be fine and should be released in about a week. He'll have to take things very slow. " Riley says happily.

Lorraine laughs and smiles. "That's my dad. He's such a strong man. I knew he'd make it."

"But I didn't know that you would make it." Riley says under her breath, holding her down. "I thought...you died..." her voice is barely above a whisper.

Lorraine grabs her chin and raises her head so that they are looking at each other. "I've died a thousand deaths wondering if you, Peter, and granddad were okay."

"I think we need to have a story time session. " I suggest. "You can tell us how you survived, and we can tell you what's been going on with us. "

"Sure. That's seems good. But it better not be anything going on. " She raises her eyebrows and grins at the both of us "with you two."

Riley bursts into laughing fit and so does Lorraine. I don't think it's funny but I force out a chuckle.

Lorraine's POV
"Okay, where to start, where to start. " I tap my finger on my chin and realize that Peter and Riley are both staring at me expectantly. "Are you two waiting on something?"

Peters jaw drops and he quickly recovers from his stupefied expression.

"Mom! You were telling us what happened to you. Story time remember?" Riley most yells.

I laugh to my self and grin at them. "I kid with you two. Take a joke. Anyway, I received a message from Riley's father telling me that my father...Riley's grandfather had been shot." I sigh. "I could not tell Riley, at that time, that it was her father that texted me because then I'd have to explain everything as far as her father goes because Riley was supposed to believe that he was dead."

"I knew that dealing with Riley's psycho father would mean that my life was not guaranteed...everything was fine all the way up to the plane taking flight and flying over the water. All of a sudden he plane was hit with something . I looked out the window at one of the wings of the plane and it was on fire and broken. We were going to crash. That's when i sent the text to Riley's phone telling her that I love her and I may not make it home. "

Riley eyes start to tear up and I lean to hug her but Peter beat me to it, he pulls he over to his side and she sits in his lap while his arm encircle her waste. My eye brows raise.

"Oh, no shame, have here huh?" I asked shocked. "How much, have, you two done?" I emphasize have and wiggle my eye brows.

Riley sniffles and wipes her eyes. her brown skin turns a seemingly impossible shade of red, while Peter stares back at me, having no shame.

"Well okay, I'll continue." I chuckle. It's evident that he's in love with her. And I've only seen him on two occasions! "I sent the message and prepared to jump from the slowly descending plane. I knew that I'd hit the water before the plane would and I'd have a chance to swim away. But when I jumped and broke the surface of the water, I was pulled under by the weight of the plane when it did hit the water. Looking into the plane I saw all those people hitting on the windows, trying to break the glass but they couldn't. Some swam through the whole I had broken but later passed out before they could swim towards air. Luggage was all around me, I myself tried to swim up but there was to much luggage to navigate around. I couldn't hold my breath that long either, and I was just to far under the water .

"How are you alive then?" Riley asks with teary eyes

"Let me finish..before I completely blacked out, when my vision was blurry, I saw a dark figure. Then I felt a hand in mine before I passed out..." I stop

"That doesn't explain how your alive." Riley says as a matter of fact.

"Damon!" I yell and look to the door.

The door creaks open and a man peaks his head inside.

"Yes, my love?" He answers giving her the full attention.