"I'm sorry. I didn't call." Kel's sentences were short and clipped, as she labored to keep the pain--and the shock--from her voice. "I should have called."
She was stalling, leaning heavily on the door jam in an attempt to look casual. She grimaced as Jax appeared in the opening, and Dex not far behind her, armed to the teeth--or so she assumed. It was all she could do to keep the tears from her eyes.