What the hell was going on?
Sparkle kept a hand braced on Josh’s back as Derrick took a sharp right and floored it. She anchored him to stop him from sliding across the seat and felt him shuddering with the force of his sobs.
Those heartbroken sounds cut straight through her, all the more unbearable because he was trying so hard to hold them back.
Ah, s**t. Just…shit. With Derrick in the vehicle, they had no privacy, but she couldn’t take watching him hurt like this.
Sparkle rubbed a soothing hand over his back in a gentle circle, not knowing what to say. There was nothing she could say to make this any easier on him.
At his touch he curled further into himself and turned his face away, burying it in his arms to hide from her, as though ashamed of her seeing him crying.
Something
