Everything on the Line

That caught me off guard.

“Afraid for him?” he said.

“Afraid for him?” I asked quietly.

He nodded, that faraway look in his eyes again. “I’m afraid he’ll do something he can’t take back. Something he’ll regret for the rest of his life. Not just regret… something that will end him.”

He looked right at me, dead in the eye, like he was begging me to understand. Like he was handing me something dange