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frame. They looked as though they had done this a million times and it was nothing new.
     
    Jax got out of the truck and walked around and opened the door for me. As soon as I stepped out of the truck I felt out of place; I didn’t belong here.
     
    Christina was standing on the side of my gray brick house talking to a man in a suit. I had seen him at Chase’s funeral, but all the faces and names had since blurred into each other. Christina was writing down notes as the man talked. I had never seen her at work before, she was like an entirely different person. She looked so serious and determined.
     
    Jax took my hand as I stood outside his truck. Watching as people walked back and forth and all the flashing lights from the police cars made this like something out of the movies, or a twist that I would put in a book. This stuff didn’t happen in real life.
     
    Jax gave my hand a squeeze and I walked with him over toward Christina. As soon as she saw me she turned and her seriousness fell from her face. I watched as an almost forced sympathetic look crossed her face as she headed right for me. She enveloped me in her arms and held me tight.
     
    “ Are you alright? Where have you been?” Christina asked and I merely nodded my head in Jax’s direction. Then she looked at his hand that was still holding mine. “Jax, so nice of you to drive her over, but I have it from here,” Christina mumbled.
     
    “ Candy stays with me,” Jax declared. There must have been some kind of pissing contest between the two of them that I was not aware of because they glared at each other as if each was bitter with the other.
     
    “ What happened?” I asked trying to pull their focus away from each other and get this over with. I didn’t want to stand here any longer than I had to, and their obvious distaste for each other was keeping me rooted to this spot watching like an onlooker.
     
    “ Someone broke in the front and back door,” Christina answered
     
    “ That seems a bit excessive to break both doors doesn’t it?” I asked with my voice barely above a whisper. The whole thing just didn’t seem to compute. “What is missing?”
     
    “ We will have you do an inventory of anything that is missing after we are done processing the scene.” Christina said a little too loudly, and then leaned in and whispered to both Jax and I. “It doesn’t look like anything is missing, but the house is trashed. It’s FUBAR.”
     
    “ I don’t want to be here,” I muttered out loud without even thinking. Now that I had their attention though maybe I could leave.
     
    “ Do you want to go in and see the damage? Jax or I can take you in there.”
     
    “ Do I have to go in there? Level with me, do I want to go inside?” I asked and Christina and Jax shared a look. They were having that silent we-wear-the-same-badge talk. It was annoying before when Chase and Jax did it, but it was worse now.
     
    “ Candy, you don’t want to go in there. Your house has been trashed. Everything was pulled out or tossed from your kitchen items to your televisions and photo albums. Nothing was left untouched.”
     
    I dropped Jax’s hand and walked toward the door. I didn’t want to go inside, but some part of me felt like I needed to. I walked up the three steps of the porch and saw the fractured doorframe to the house.
     
    I walked inside to see glass shattered everywhere. The television had been busted even the gas logs had holes in them. My photos from the albums on my shelf were torn into pieces and lying on the floor. I thought I was going to be sick.
     
    I looked to the right and noticed one small shadow box still hung on the wall right beside the front window. It was this little box frame I had bought. Inside it held the first rose petal to fall from the first set of roses Chase ever bought me, and a four leaf clover that Jax had given me after we ventured into the woods to find a new place to wish. Both had been freeze dried and