Sara

My heart was pounding so loud I couldn’t hear anything else. Some part of me was aware that Jaxon was trying to talk to me but it felt like he was far away, and I couldn’t hear anything he said. I couldn’t hear anything but the sped-up, out-of-sync sound of my heart. I almost felt like I could hear and feel the tears in it.

It felt like whoever had done this had literally ripped pieces of me away. Everything hurt, and I felt like my body might ...