~Kade~
I stood in the door frame. My eyes scanned over her broken body, and I listened in on her heartbeat. I couldn’t step over the threshold. Anna’s words were running amok in my head, and I was contemplating turning around and walking away. When did this become so hard? The idea of truth and lie, fable or reality—it was like I no longer knew what I wanted. The walls were turning bleak, the sounds were closing out, and everything around her was growing dark until she was the only light in the tunnel I could see, leading me down the darkest road I’d taken, alone and honestly a little afraid. The thought of fear never coincided with me; it was an emotion I knew others would occasionally have, and they would be vocal about it, but I could never put myself in their shoes. Fear wasn’t ve
