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The last four years hadn’t been easy.

I had PTSD—post traumatic stress disorder—from what he’d had his “friends” do to me.

I needed to close this chapter of my life because it was time to move on to the next progression in my life.

One that scared the shit out of me.

I’d kept this secret—my being ready for a baby with him—for a year while this documentary was made.

But I wouldn’t be able to hide it much longer.

Black had left the baby planning up to me, telling me he was ready when I was.

But I hadn’t shared that I was. I’d quietly gone off birth control and left it in the universe’s hands.

The universe had decided about three months ago.

Needless to say, it was time for him to know that I was ready, and that our baby would be here in just a few short months.

Shelby had gone along with the documentary for completely different reasons.

She wanted Leo to pay, and the man who’d made this documentary had said he would make it happen.

That was the same reason that Blanche said she’d do it.

Because she couldn’t thrive in a world that Leo was still a part of.

And the man who’d filmed the entire thing came through.

A day and a half after the documentary had been released, Leo had died a very public death.

Leo was being transferred from one facility to another, a more secure one that he’d be at full time from now on, when he’d escaped.

That escape hadn’t lasted long.

A man had come out of nowhere and had hit him with his car.

Right in front of a news van that’d been on the scene of the ‘search’ for Leo.

The man had hit him with his car, gotten out, and looked down at Leo’s broken body as if it was a bug that’d hit his windshield and not a man.

That man?

None other than Shelby’s mentor—Rush Everheart.

Rush was the same man who produced the documentary, as well as had been her mentor in her journey to becoming a psychiatrist.

That’d been where Rush had gotten the idea for the documentary.

Shelby had shared about Leo, and her struggles, during a private moment, and Rush had suggested the documentary.

In the end, Leo’s death had been why the documentary had become an overnight sensation.

Nothing like the main character’s death to boost sales.

The documentary turned off, and Black growled. “I thought we said that we weren’t going to watch it?”

My lips split into a grin. “I needed to see…”