Rhys
Faith held onto me, crying so hard her small body shook against mine.
“Will my Mummy be ok?” she asked, her voice breaking in that way that made something inside me twist painfully.
I rubbed her back slowly, trying to steady both of us.
“Of course, Trouble,” I said softly. “The doctors are doing the best that they can.”
My voice sounded calm.
Because inside, I was anything but.
My heart was beating so fast it felt like it was trying to break out of my chest.
I couldn’t unsee it.
No matter how many times I tried to push it away.
It was there.
Burned into my mind.
Grace.
The look on her face.
That pain.
That fear.
It had been real.
And it was all because of me.
Because I was too much of a coward to trust her.
Declan stood a few feet away with Otto, but even from here
