AMARANTA POV
*unstopable - Sia*
I was broken. Torn in half. I was split into two and my whole body buzzed with it, pain crawling under my skin like it couldn’t settle anywhere.
I wasn’t grieving. There wasn’t space for it. Not fear either. That part of me—the one that thought, that measured, that held back—was gone, stripped clean, leaving nothing behind but heat and pressure and the kind of silence that comes right before something explodes.
Garrett sagged in my arms, heavy, real, his weight dragging me forward half a step as my fingers tightened in his shirt, gripping harder like I could force him to stay, like I could drag him back into himself if I just didn’t let go.
There was nothing behind his eyes.
But his heart still beat.
His body was alive.
And I was going to get him bac
