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d yet, I couldn't get t

ed me numerous times about

vague excuse about the aftershocks

at wasn't enough

s the

s what had caught my

elf when I was his age-broken, damaged, havin

t bear the thought of him suffering alone.

ck to the

han's back

, Cathan never hesitated to make his disple

pen, without security? Reck

ospital's pitiful state hit

t lights, the faint but distinct odo

ived

nd, a cancerous thing I didn'

, I did. And I made a promise to myself t

one clawed its way up the depths of my memory. I began to turn my back to

ad of sun-kissed c

efore my mind could

mber of times those golden curls had

f my mind seem just a little less suffocatin

n't go

ppear into the night, his eyes found mi

wav

e in return, but I caught myself, dropping

Louis made his way toward me, his meek form ca

elp with your

t where he'd pressed a towel to my bleeding side, days ago-his poor, a

king I would need help with some

n, he didn't

thing that made s

li

t I was in pain. I mean, pain did course through me, bu

go get the nurs

o.

gh the run-down lobby.

inched s

k I can manage," I added more so

, uncertain, bu

. but that looks really bad t

. It's a goddamn knife wo

his worry, gave a nod and turned away, walking calm

door slammed shut b

ing wheel until my

him-this boy, this brok

cept

restimated my at

d repeatedly against the wheel, hoping the sha

did

ed my not-so-silent tantrum. It was C

ns were really strung high at the moment and

e point. No sugarcoating. I wasn't fazed. Cathan

ed to s

enc

y, his voice tight with disappointment. He let out a h

ly my heart, ever since I made the fatal mistake

hy

carried an entire arsenal

h

uestion for a while now but I

id harshly. "I'm not going th

him again. Couldn't let these feelin

ut his clipped tone be

eyes at the phone, like he always did wh

subject. There were better things to talk about like the pe

y grateful at the change of subject. He was always happi

d your go-ahead. Once we move, the Red

ay to get rid of the family that has been a pain in my family's ass for years now. But for som

vertheless, they were a powerful famil

erns known to

said. "I'll have a new dr

most discrete spies to watch

bastard to trace but like all men, he had a weakness

e doted on

it was a crack we could

specific time. A time that we w

rized. But even as I tossed my phone aside, Louis' face bled into my mind a

bigger thin

's do

mily's

and sped into the nig

feel for

ory of those sad, searchin