Chapter 62

RONAN

I'm not doing it anymore.

It was too much. I reached for her, my fingers wrapping around her arms carefully but firmly. She was warm beneath my touch, but her face was still. Like if I let her go, she'd disappear into the silence that closed around us. Into her hurt. Into the distance between us.

I shook her lightly—not to hurt her, but to ground her. To get her to notice me.

"Stop." I said,