CHAPTER THIRTY SIX: CONFESSIONS
CAMILLE
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I trembled as I clutched the jacket wrapped around me—Alex’s jacket. My eyes stared into space, back to the moment when that truck had slammed into Mason.
The crack of bone. Blood smeared across the road.
Mason’s body, still.
I’d tried to run to him, to confirm life or death with my own hands, but Alex had held me back, locking me against his chest like a cage.
Mason was gone.
Alex had driven me straight to my apartment. I hadn’t spoken a word the entire ride. My skin had gone cold, my face drained, and my thoughts blank. Only one image haunted me: Mason’s broken body lying there like discarded glass.
When we’d reached my apartment, Alex guided me to the couch and draped his jacket over me. I could only sit rigid, staring through the wa
