Chapter 156

His whole body was shaking now. I could see it in his shoulders, in the way his chest heaved with each breath, in the way his hands wouldn't stop clenching and unclenching.

When he finally looked at me, his eyes were wild.

Desperate.

Drowning.

"This is why," he said, his voice cracking on the words. "This is exactly why I—why I filed for—"

He couldn't finish.

Just stood there, bleeding from his pa