“I’m not ready for you to go back to work tomorrow.” His words pull me from the sweet bubble we’ve built around ourselves and I’m instantly wide-awake.

I let out a breath, then pull my head back so that I can look down at him. As hard as this whole thing has been on me, I know it’s affected him just as much maybe even more. Not only did he sit down with his brothers and tell them that he was done helping them, but he also told them he’s no longer going to be actively looking for the person or people who lured Arya away from her adoptive family. I was not happy about this, I didn’t want him to feel like he had to give up something that was so important but then he explained that his future is now more important than his past so how could I argue with that.

“I know, me either.” We’ve been inseparable these last few weeks and I love having him around constantly, but I also know its time for us to get back a little normalcy. And now with there being no possibility of Troy being released from jail anytime soon, I don’t have that hanging over me.

Miles, Tucker, and the entire police department have worked tirelessly to build a case against Troy for the murders of Carly and Matthew. Something they had zero evidence of because while I was passed out, Troy had gotten rid of each and every note he wrote to Carly and that she had kept. What no one knew, including me, is that Carly and Troy had dated for two months when she first started working at the bank. And where he saw their relationship going somewhere serious, she did not, so she eventually ended it and began seeing other people.

This obviously did not sit well with him, and my guess is he started leaving her notes at work after she refused to respond to his texts or calls. Then she signed up with the dating app, started seeing Matthew, and that pushed him over the edge. At his home the police found proof that he had become obsessed with Carly, and on his computer, they uncovered the evidence they needed to charge him with not only Carly’s murder but also Matthew’s, something Miles and Tucker, both initially warned me would be more difficult to prove since Matthew was found with the gun used to kill him. Also, that gun had been registered under Matthew’s name, and his prints were the only ones on the weapon. They kept digging though, until they found what they needed.

Now with the case they have built against Troy that is solid as a rock, he’s set to go to trial next year. And I will be in the courthouse every single day staring him down because he did not kill me like he had planned. In fact, by hitting that alarm at the bank I prevented him from getting away with everything, since the police showed up almost right away.