Darren was standing over me now, his shadow swallowing me in the dirt, his chest heaving, his jaw tight like he was about to break apart from the inside out. “Get up,” he snapped, his voice like gravel. “Get the hell up before I drag you off the ground myself.”
“I can’t!” I yelled, my hands shaking as I tried to push myself up and almost fell again because my head was spinning, my eyes were burning, my whole body was shaking so hard I thought my teeth were going to rattle out.
“I hit my stomach, Darren! Oh my God, what if something happened to them? What if something’s wrong? Damon’s going to kill you, he’s going to rip your head off when he finds out you chased me and I fell and I..oh my God, my babies!”
He crouched down in front of me so fast the air moved, his eyes flashing like fir
