LEON
My hand won't stop shaking.
The tremor is faint, but I feel it all the way up my arm and down the rest of my body.
I had her throat in my hand.
Two thoughts hit me at once, and they've been circling my head ever since I walked away from her.
The first: how easy it would have been to kill her.
The second: how impossible it would have been to kill her.
Fuck! I couldn't even press hard enough to leave a mark. The thought of choking her, of actually hurting her, felt like trying to breathe underwater.
My hand just… refused. My whole body refused.
And that terrifies me more than anything else about tonight.
I immediately drop to the floor and start doing push-ups. There is an inbuilt gym in the penthouse beside Gabriella’s studio, but I don’t feel like leaving the room right no
