Too Late for Roses

~HADLEY~

I had almost made it to the car when I heard footsteps. Hurried ones. Like someone was trying to catch up to me.

I turned and found Garrett closing the distance across the driveway, expression set with the same urgency he had worn at the diner.

The memory of the last time this happened hit immediately—the photos, the headlines, Beckett's fury, the pool. My stomach tightened.

"I'm in no mo