NICOLE

When I leave work, I stop by Mason's apartment before going home because I have to check up on him and I promised him I'd do so.

Though he's doing a lot better since he left the hospital, I just feel so damned guilty whenever I think about him. I genuinely feel like it's my fault that he's been stabbed and nobody can change my mind. He was only at that event because of me. Angus insisted because I declined the invitation in the first place.

I lock my Chevrolet Spark and head upstairs, ...