Chapter 53.

He had been smiling when the news came. Laughing at a joke his father made, readjusting his bow tie and imagining the love of his life in the wedding dress he saw her in two days before. He knew she was even going to be better than he pictured.

The urgency and speed that Ryder used to rush into Holly's room was unmatched. And the sight he was met with made his heart stop.

There was Holly, lying on the cold ground with her pale body and her white gown soaked with the crimson red blood that was gradually spreading from her chest. 

Before he knew it he was barking out instructions to no one in particular as he took her in his arms. The ambulance had been called. But they had to wait for it to arrive.

Ryder didn't need to ask the question of who did