REED'S POV

"Maybe we were wrong to think we could make this work. Maybe the universe is trying to tell us something, that maybe we aren't actually meant to be together after all."

The silence that followed was so thick, so deafening that I could even hear my own heartbeat.

Lilith looked like I'd physically struck her, her hand dropped from my chest. "What did you just say?" She said, her voice barely above a whisper.

"I just mean—maybe we need to think about whether being together is ...