22. Princeton

The last thing I wanted after finding out that Jessie and I were expecting a son was to be attack just three days later. And the last thing I expected was to see Ellie with a gun filled with wolfsbane surrounded by a group of hunters. The same people that nearly killed my parents six years ago. Ellie, the same girl that had been at our side as we waited patiently for any signs that told us that Jericho would be okay a month ago. The same person who Jessie saw as a friend, someone who could confide in and someone that would be there for him if I wasn't. It was as if everything had slowed down the second I saw her getting it of her car and walking to the back only to come out holding a gun towards us while hunters began emerging from the surrounding area of the woods.

Hours passed by before the fight was finally over and I had gone to get Jessie and the kids from the safe room while Marc and Molly took Ellie to the interrogating room to get answers. But like Alexa said, Ellie's scent wa