As he’d been staring down into Graham’s green eyes, their time together flashed back to him.
He saw the good moments.
He saw the bad ones.
And then, he saw the finality of it.
The last thing he wanted was for Graham to die because of what happened between them. Michael didn’t want to be the cause of someone’s death.
As he heard running heading their way, he looked over, and the two people he’d left in the pub had showed up for some reason.
“What the hell?” Finn asked, getting to Graham’s side and touching his neck. “We drove up here to check on both of you and we heard this feral scream! Something led us here,” he admitted.
Yeah, well, he knew how that felt.
Been there.
Done that.
It had saved Graham’s life too.
He knew the two dead men were the real heroes in this. There was no way he could have hoisted Graham up on his own.
Michael pointed toward the boulder and the empty bottle on the ground by it before he explained what had gone on there.
“He tried to jump,” Michael said. “Not tried. He did. I barely saved him,” he said, out of breath from the exertion.
Finn was horrified.
To hear that Graham had been willing to give up on life was horrifying, and it shook him that they never would have found him since they wouldn’t have looked at the bowel of the cliff bed.
Jesus.
That meant only one thing for Finn…
“Had you not been here he would have died tonight, and we would have lost him.”
Oh, he was aware.
It hadn’t been an easy one either, but he knew there was no way he could take all the credit for this rescue mission. He most definitely had backup.
Ghostly ones.
And Michael wasn’t sure how he felt about that either. It freaked him the fuck out.
“Only, I wasn’t the only one who was here,” he said, as Gabby helped him up.
At his words, they both stared at him, not sure what he meant when he said that. Michael looked to be completely alone with the exception of a passed-out Graham.
“What’s that mean?” Gabby asked, curiously.
Michael pointed, and in this case a visual was worth more than words.
When both people glanced over, there was their gasp of surprise.
Not far away, the two apparitions stood there like they had that night at the lake when they showed themselves.
Then, without a word, or any motion, they slowly backed up into the shadows to disappear.
