KADE

I was caught off guard by how suddenly the tears came. Her head was just on my chest while she tried to catch her breath, and all of a sudden a sound like she was choking tore from her throat. 

I was on the verge of panicking, thinking something had happened, or I had been too rough. But then I held her face, a question at the tip of my tongue, but when I saw her face, all the words died on my tongue. 

She was sobbing, weeping so hard that her entire body shook and the ...