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that
horrifying crime, and ever feel comfortable and safe again like she
had before. It was impossible. No one could expect it of her, could
they?
    What if they just left? Sell the
house, pay the bills off with what remained of Mac’s life insurance
after the funeral, and just leave. She could go home
again.
    Since she’d left Nashville after high
school and moved to Boston with a friend, she’d never returned.
Honestly never even thought about going back. Why would she? Her
mother and her weren’t close and Mac had been her world from that
point forward.
    Together they’d moved to Maine,
following the fishing trail, and from there they’d come to Alaska,
in further pursuit of the fishing jackpot. A jackpot they’d never
found, although their life here was a nicer one than in the lower
48, as the locals called all the states that weren’t
Alaska.
    But, she couldn’t just pick up that
life where they’d left off. When that man and his daughter had
pushed their way into their home they had ended any hope of letting
them return to anything that bordered on normal.
    What was normal anymore anyway, she
wondered idly, letting the painkillers have their way with her
thoughts and feelings. They needed Mac to be normal. She needed to
still be pregnant with Mac’s baby for normal to exist and neither
or those things were possible. Therefore, normal wasn’t possible.
And if normal was impossible, then maybe other things that used to
be impossible were now possible. And that meant going home to
Nashville and Myra. Maybe it was time for Liam to meet his
grandmother.

CHAPTER 11

    Liam gingerly set first one foot then
the other into his room. The door was hanging from the hinges and
looked covered with the white dust the police had used to try and
search for fingerprints or anything that would give them a clue
about the people that had murdered his dad, killed his little
brother, and effectively ended his life as he knew it.
    Bet they didn’t find anything useful
though, Liam thought has he stood in the middle of his room just
looking at the chaos he used to find comfort in.
    At first the police thought that his
room might have been tossed because the bad guys were searching for
something to steal or maybe the reason behind why they were there
at all.
    “Did you know this girl son?” One of
the cops had asked Liam about Emily.
    “No.” He’d told them over and
over.
    These cops wanted to believe that he’d
known Emily, maybe even had a relationship or an argument or
something with her at school, which had led to the attack. The
truth was even more pointless. It had been an accident. An innocent
fender bender, nothing more, he’d explained endlessly.
    He didn’t know her. He didn’t know her
father and neither did his parents. And, oh yeah, for the record,
his room always looked like that, they hadn’t ransacked it to look
for anything.
    It was the first time he’d been
grateful that his mom was out of it in the hospital because she
would have been mortified if she’d known that his room was so messy
even the cops couldn’t believe it wasn’t the result of a crime
scene.
    His parent’s friends, Lisa and Bill,
their neighbors, had stood by him through it all.
    Yes, he’d come running to their house
the night of the attack, screaming that someone was hurting them.
They’d called the police and Bill had come running with his gun.
The whole thing had happened in less than an hour, as hard to
believe as it felt to him.
    They hadn’t recognized the two
attackers. Didn’t know the girl, Emily, from around town or school
or any of the community events the kids put on.
    No one knew them. Maybe a couple of
drifters looking for trouble and money? Maybe escaped psychotics
from the lower 48? No one knew.
    Liam hoped they’d rot in hell. Where
ever and whoever they were.
    But right now he had to get his
clothes and he wanted to get the hell out of here sooner rather
than later. Just standing in this room was bringing all