Chapter 111

AARON

I shift back and brace to fight.

There are letters strewn across the floor and mattress and Leah’s screaming.

It’s a cry of pain and rage that chills me to the bone.

I sling my arms around her. “Calm down. You’re alright.”

But she isn’t.

She’s shaking and wailing.

She’s completely out of f**king control.

cover her mou th

her. I hold her and pray that whatever the he ll this is will

doesn’t though, at least not right

she finally does calm

my hand. “Leah?”

have a far-off look to them. A look I’ve seen before in the aftermath of ho rrific things.

face with my hands. “Look at me,

to focus on me, but there is no change in her

know what the he ll

roils beneath my skin, wanting to get

right now, I need to understand what is

what you need. Give me

words.”

screaming now, but she isn’t moving or speaking either and this complete stillness is worse to me than her freakout of only a few

a mo uth on her, and a dry

out like this. Every other time life punched

it,” she whispers after a while.

of her closed eyes

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