Edric
Pain.
Hot, searing pain.
I felt it burn my chest, s***h a bone, tear through my heart, and graze a lung.
I closed my eyes, as though that would somehow make it okay, but it didn’t, and it forced a roar out of my already damaged lungs.
I noticed her hand trying to pull out of the stab, but I held it in place and stared her in the eye.
“Don’t you dare give up,” I growled.
There were tears in her eyes, but she was strong. She didn’t let them fall. Instead, she pulled the knife a little ways out and pushed it in again, sawing at my heart.
The pain blinded me, and I didn’t know when I fell to the floor.
“I’m sorry,” she whimpered. “I’m so sorry…”
I nodded because she didn’t deserve to do this. I forgave her before it even happened, knowing that I was the one who was supposed to
