Loving Ashlynn (#Wattys2016)

Chapter 52 - Like Glass (Devin Rosario POV) Pt.3

Some asked how Devin and Taylor were ahead of Brennan dn the others? So they drove for the same amount of time, but Devin's in a car, without following anyone. Brennan and the others are in a bus, but he's trailing Antone. Then there are more families in trailers behind them. Brennan stopped, and so think of the timeline as: while Javier was kicking Brennan's butt, Devin and Taylor were still driving. Hopefully this helps make sense...

Chapter 52 – Like Glass (Devin Rosario POV) Pt.3

I speed away, going for ten minutes at over sixty, the darkness overwhelming and only deepening the fear that was building inside me.

Pulling off to the side of the road, I place the car in park and just sob, as everything I thought I knew was ripped from underneath me.

How on earth could Taylor kill Silas? How?

They said that it was a fault plane. Instantly I'm back to when I learned that Silas had passed away. Taylor had spent the night at the Conrad's, with Samson watching movies. I was there with Brennan, in his room with Talia and Javier watching something that wasn't about hobbits.

I go back further.

"Apparently Silas and his friend went to go fly our plane for a while," Brennan told me, causing me to snicker at Silas, "He would do something like that," I chuckled.

Making plans, we decided on what time he would pick Taylor and I up from the school.

"What were you laughing at earlier?" She asked me nonchalantly. I look back now, and shake my head as the sobs get louder, and my chest constricts, "Oh, Brennan was just telling me about Silas taking the plane out-"

She chuckled. I could remember that so clearly. "Yeah, I heard him planning earlier..." I hadn't read anything into it then. We all spent time together, if she heard Silas making plans, there was nothing too suspicious about that. "Why – why would w-would-" I barely choke out, hanging my head.

"Well Samson just-"

"Samson isn't going along with it, I mean he's not going with them? Right?" oh. Oh. Oh. My. God. I gasp, my lungs working improperly.

I thought back then... we were just fifteen. I thought it was about her crush on Samson, the way her eyes widened, the fear... I just – I just.

"Oh God, no. No."

"Tay where are you? Brennan's here-"

"Oh, I just got another ride to the Conrads, I'm hanging with Samson so he isn't tempted to run off and go with Silas," she had chuckled.

Heart racing. My breathing getting shallower by the second, my head feels as though I'm being forced underwater.

"I – I don't un-understand," I croak, slapping my hand over my mouth to rein my emotions in, stop myself from passing out completely.

It is overly frightening but as I try to calm, my thoughts bounce angrily, demanding I pay attention though it's hard to focus on just one thing.

Did Taylor have something to do with the fire in the dorms? Ansel said that someone tampered with their plane, when Silas was flying Taylor was at the Conrads. She wasn't even onsite to cause the crash. Could she have somehow rigged the dorm room?

Why kill Silas? Stomach churning, the most horrid and paralyzing thought is that she wanted Silas out of the way. Samson was independent but in a way he and Silas were this duo. Taylor could never get a chance to get Samson alone. Samson would always include Silas.