Chapter 24

Ian

Whenever things are going right, one should never be happy because that’s when everything starts to go wrong.

I didn’t understand how my dad said his entire world collapsed when Mom got shot. I always thought, how could someone’s world get destroyed just because of one specific person? But when I saw the familiar person pointing the gun at my Autumn, my entire world stopped.

I ran toward her, screaming her name. “Autumn!” I pushed her, and she winced in pain. “Are you okay?”

I instantly held her close to my chest.

“Ian. I... I am okay,” she said but the tone she used felt like she was just assuring me.

I gazed into her beautiful green irises. I could never get tired of looking at them. She gave a forceful smile.

When I grabbed her waist, she shrieked. As she was wearing a red top, it was hard to decode the blood oozing from one side of her waist, though I was familiar with that semi-liquid s********.

Fear got into me, seeing her hu