RHYDAR
The silence that follows her outburst is deafening. She's still straddling me, shaking with rage, her eyes rimmed red with unshed tears. I can hear her heart thumping hard. She's broken. She doesn't know that I can feel it too.
Her pain. Her fury. Her confusion.
And beneath all that... our bond is still tangled.
I release her slowly, watching her as she scrambles back, her breath hitching as if I'd physically struck her. She looks at me like I've become something grotesque. She shouldn’t be surprised. The shadows swirling in my eyes are proof enough that I'm beyond redemption.
She launches herself at me the next second, and I let her. Her angry fists collide with my body, her voice cracking with emotion.
"You killed him!" she screams, punching my chest. "You killed Leo, you si
