Silent Defiance

DOMINIC

I stood by the edge of her large bedside, my knuckles turning white as I gripped the wooden edges of the food tray. A heavy, unfamiliar guilt gnawed at my insides as I watched Daphne. She sat propped up slightly under the thick, down blanket. Her face was ghostly pale and blank. Her usual fiery defiance was extinguished by the sickness. I knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that this was m