Chapter 10

"Our brain has something like a defense mechanism against suicide," he said, moving away when I leaned back on the tree. Edward ran his fingers through his dark hair, releasing them from that loose bun. The black locks fell around his face, like a curtain of silky threads. "He will always try to prevent death from happening in an unintentional way, sending specific commands to the region of the nervous system, practically inducing the person to try to save himself. In a drowning, the victim's first instinct is to shake the body, to try to submerge. If the person can kill himself, if he simply does not fight, it is because he has already reached a level of pain that the brain is no longer able to understand. Your brother was not a happy person, L, he was just a good actor. Like all of us."

I couldn't do anything but swallow it dry, feeling the burning in my throat with the promise of tears that would be shed without the slightest warning. He was ri