Chapter 80: Like A Blood Hound

Chapter 80: Like A Blood Hound

Layla's Bedroom, The Quinn Residence, The Backwoods, Temperance, South Dakota...

Layla had been half asleep when Brick had slipped out of her bed and proceeded to get dressed. He didn't seem to mind the blood that covered his clothes nor the fact that they had holes in them. His cut was untouched aside from a few splatters of blood that could easily be washed off given the material and it was all he cared for despite what became of his shirt, which he left on the living room floor. Brick seemed to dust himself off and turned his attention to venturing back toward Layla's bedroom. She'd still been half asleep when he gently kissed her on the forehead and left her to her own devices. He knew already that she'd need her rest given her shift and school had been on the horizon as he headed back out the front door, recalling how he had crawled from where he'd been shot to her front porch, never more grateful than he had been in that moment that she'd bee