Chapter 16. That Day

I'm fucking burning. I feel like the fire lit inside me and is burning every part of my body. It's all caused by her screams and cries. I feel like I caused this, I shouldn't have let her walk out with her friend, I should have kept her with me. I should have noticed the guys fighting at the top of the stairs and stopped them. I didn't though, I didn't notice and it's my fault that she is hurting right now.

I watch as she is destroyed. I have never seen anyone so hurt before. Her cries are like nothing I have heard. They aren't so much cries of physical pain but mental and emotional. It's a sound that rips me apart each and every bit of them. She shouldn't be hurting, not Evaline, not my Evaline, she saves me, how couldn't I save her and our baby?

The moment the baby passes, I know. Her whole body changes, and it's the cry that breaks me. It's a cry that tears me apart, and she clings to me harder. I