KAYLEE
With blood rushing through my ears, drowning out the rest of the hospital, I took a step toward Axel. My legs shook as though they had suddenly turned into cooked spaghetti. On reflex, I reached out a hand and used the wall to steady myself.
Alarm flashed in Axel’s eyes and I saw the twitch in his muscles before he made a move to reach for me. I shook my head once before he so much as took more than a step. He stopped but didn’t look happy about it.
“Kaylee-” he stopped when it seemed the person he had forgotten about on the other end of the call he had pressed to his ear spoke. Axel’s jaw clenched. “Vincent, I will call you later.” He listened for a second and nodded as though his brother could see him, and then he lowered the phone and shoved it into his front pocket. Then hi
