Chapter 106. Losing Willow (1)

There was a roaring in my head as I realized why my mother was screaming.

It was like everything was in slow motion as I reached her. There was blood. So much blood. I tried to see where she was bleeding from so that I could stop it but was shoved away by my father.

I hadn’t even realized there was a group of people surrounding us.

“Don’t move her, Nicholas! She might have a spinal injury.”

I felt useless, kneeling there next to her and watching as my father looked her over. I kept calling her name, hoping she would lift her head and open her eyes and tell me she was okay.

There were still screams and shouting and crying behind me, but I didn’t know or care who they came from. It was like a fog descended on my world. Everything I cared about was fractured and fragmented on the cold cement in front of me.

She was my whole world, and I had failed her. I should have been beside her, holding her arm like I was supposed to. How could I have let her go