Kali's POV
Over the years, I'd heard people describe a number of things as the worst thing that cukd happen to them. It ranged from death, to losing a loved one, getting an illness amongst a whole list of other things. While their fears were understandable, I couldn't say I actually related, and even in a million years, I didn't see myself being in their shoes. But of all things that could be the worst thing for me, I never thought it would be silence.
It swirled all around me, and I didn't miss how it pressed down against my chest like a f*****g freight train that had no other wish than to choke me to death. For the next couple of seconds, I couldn't hear a thing.
Not the sound of my own pulse hammering in my ears, not even the fact that Diego was still close enough for me to feel t
