RYDER
She is fine.
Those three words were the only thing keeping me together tonight.
Standing on the hospital rooftop, I took another drag from my cigarette and exhaled slowly into the cold night air. The doctor’s words kept replaying in my head over and over again.
They had found an excessive amount of drugs in her system, confirming what I had already suspected when I discovered the empty drug wrappers scattered across her room. She had tried to end her life. First with the pills. Then by slipping beneath the water in the bathtub.
I drew another breath of smoke into my lungs before letting it out, fighting with everything I had not to let my thoughts wander back to the past.
“Ryder?”
I sniffed and turned at the sound of my name. My gaze briefly met Logan’s before shifting back to
