Chapter 26
The ambulance siren was wailing, and so was the heart monitor, and Darren was gone, his arm trailing to the floor off the edge of the sofa. The blood was everywhere, just blood, seeping out of his shoulder, and blackened by the tattoo, pooling on the carpet and running down his arm in rivulets and…
Jayden woke with a sharp gasp, and it turned into a sob in an instant. Darren, Darren, Darren…he was gone. He was gone, and Jayden hadn’t saved him, hadn’t stopped him, hadn’t…he’d killed himself, he’d done it, he’d finally done it and Jayden hadn’t done a thing, Jayden had stood by and let him, Jayden had…
He covered his face in both hands and burst into tears.
It took a good minute—maybe more—of the explosive crying before his brain caught up on itself, and Jayden became fully a
