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Beginning of a Past part 5

Garrett saved my life. He pulled me away from Lance, and jumped in the fight himself, punching Lance constantly. He finally got the gun away from Lance and stood up aiming at him. Once Lance could see through his black eyes,” Anna paused again, taking this moment to grin slightly at the memory of Lance in pain. “Garrett told me to call 911. The police came and of course everything went to trial.” Suddenly Anna’s face changed. Her eyebrows were tied together in fury, her eyes could murder your pride just with a look. “Lance was rich. Real rich. He got a stupid well paid lawyer that ended up proving him innocent saying things like ‘Garrett isn’t a reliable witness since he came in at the last of it. Lance tripped coming in the door and he accidentally fell on Anna. As for the gun shots? It hit the stairs in a certain way that made them shoot off.’ The jury was a idiotic gullible bunch.” Anna finally look Jack straight in the face. He looked furious. Like he was about to explode like some nuclear bomb. “Jack?”

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