Drawing the Line

~DONOVAN~

I stood outside Valerie's door for what felt like hours after she had stopped responding to me.

The silence on the other side was deafening, broken only by the sound of Leo's quiet chatter as he played with his toys.

My chest felt tight like I couldn't get enough air.

The look on Leo's face when I had snapped at him kept replaying in my mind….the way his little shoulders had slumped, how