Shattered Defenses

Valerie’s POV

Even into the next day, I kept thinking about Darius, how close I came to losing him, and how that made me feel. When he entered the examination room, covered in blood, my heart had totally stopped. And before that, I had been so worried about him…

It was as if all my negative feelings for him had been pushed to the side. I could only focus on what it would have felt like to lose him