Unbearable Loss

“What?” I whispered, because that was the only word my mouth could form.

Cole took a breath that looked like it hurt him to draw in. “The healer confirmed it this morning,” he said. “The impact, the stress, the fall. You were already bleeding before. She said your body could not hold onto it.”

I blinked at him, but nothing happened inside me. My brain rejected the information outright, as if the