No Strings Attached

n, racing out in the cold while tracking the GPS location of Rey's

hite flakes that glowed yellow under the streetlights. She dialed the Emerg

of the phone. "This is 9

around old Highway 80 in San

there in

whispered, her

tlight, towering over her. There was a car across the st

prospect's location. The face her eyes met, in the pit of his subconscious, alm

her voice growing coarse with de

him but to no avail. She pulled him out of t

e cold air, her breath labored, crawling visibly out of her lips. The snowfl

long. Her eyes traveled along his relaxed face. Her gaze darted to the shape of his brows and how perfectly th

w seconds away from where the accident happened, sh

gh the night. Paramedics from UC San Diego Health-L

fine," one

It looks like an impact from another accident," the one who se

eeding arm and placed a

Davies, the software mogul, I saw on TV last night?"

t this going out into public knowledge. It would make the headlines that the son of Cali

boss," she affirmed by nodding her head, in ho

ing for them. Mia had called and informed him about Rey's

oward her from where h

aid, waving back as

I had no idea how I would have dealt wit

doing?" An

njuries, and he'd be discharged as soon as he is

y, you look tired, yourself.

waiting for Mr. Reynaldo at home." A faint s

e snow fall and sipping tea while Rey was ex

but with a slightly banging head, just as they left the hospital. Andrews and Mia help

t to go close to him now that he was watching her movements. His eyes followed eve

es who came trailing in every night. He did all he wan

d and turned on the heater

d, a little skeptical about staying in the room for a minute longer

if you told me to." She

ned, drawing slow steps towards her, pulling at his tie

if you plan to watch

door handle, her heart racing. Outside she le

is eyes when he spoke his last words. Was he even in an acci

staff quarters outside the house. The morning light began breaking into the s