Brian

There is nothing like seeing someone you love in pain.

Not the thriving kind of pain, the one that they receive when they stump their foot or break their arm. Not the kind of pain that hurts only for a few seconds or a few hours.

No.

The kind of pain that consumes their soul. That takes everything honest and strong about them and turns it into something else. Something darker.

It took seconds.

Seconds of getting a phone call that lasted ...