Ashley POV

It felt like time froze into a sickening slow motion as I watched the blood- his blood- flowing from between his fingers and dripping onto the asphalt below. With startling clarity, it dawned on me that even though the stranger had intended to stab Jared in the stomach, Jared had been fast enough to catch the knife with both hands before it could fully sink in. The amount of blood spreading across his clean white shirt was not a good sign. Though at first I was too scared and shocked to do anything but stare at the scene unfolding before me with an odd sense of curiosity, I...