KROSS

I reached for her hands before I said anything else because I already knew that once the words came out, there would be no pulling them back, no softening the weight of them. I needed her to feel that she wasn’t alone in this world, that whatever was about to land on her chest wasn’t going to hit without me standing right there with her.

“Sade,” I said quietly, wrapping my fingers around hers, feeling how cold they were. “Look at me for a second.”

She did, her eyes still ...