Chapter 139

Cody

Fuck, I can’t even focus on the game we’re going to be playing and I forgot my lucky friend bracelet, it’s the one that Atlas gave me when we were about twelve, he won it at the town’s fairground one year for shooting hoops. I left it back at the Lake House. Damn it. And now with the emergency call from Luna hysterical down the phone that she is bleeding has put my nerves completely on edge. I asked if it was just spotting but she told me it was a lot of blood, and she was frightened.

I have reassured her that she will be okay, because what else can I do? She’s in Minnesota still and I am stuck here in Vegas about to play a game of hockey. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Immi was my next call to ask her to go be with Luna and at that moment it hit me how lonely Luna must be. The poor woman, I never considered how she felt and what she was going through.

Her own mother is a space cadet and drinks, and her father left them when she was a kid. The mother never remarried; I’m not surprised to be ho