CHRISTIEN’S POV; The door slammed hard enough to shake the walls of the room. I stayed still long after she left. My jaw tightened slowly as silence settled around me again. She was angry. Good. Maybe anger would finally make her stay away from me. I looked down at my shoulder. The bandage wrapped across my back and arm was pink. Of course it was pink. I should have taken it off immediately. Instead, I kept staring at it like an i***t. The room suddenly felt too warm. Too quiet. Too full of her. Her scent still lingered faintly in the air, mixed with antiseptic and the metallic smell of blood. Annoying. I bent down, picked up my shirt from the floor, and pulled it on carefully despite the sharp pain that spread through my shoulder. Pain didn’t matter. It never really had.

