Chapter 45.

I shift on the bed, trying to sit up and do something, because I don't like the effect, that the silence seems to have on us. After what I said, Aiden hasn't been able to respond. 

He knows that what I said, is the truth.

As I move, he is there to help me until I sit up, now being in eye level with him.

" I'm a ----------" 

" It was self defense." He cuts me off.

" He might have done the worst kind of things to us, but, it doesn't change the fact that I killed him. I killed someone's son." 

" It was self defence, Chloe! - He was ready to kill you, he'd been trying to do this for a long time and at the last moment....." He cuts himself short, rising to his feet and turning his back on me.

I watch him run his fingers through his hair, releasing a sigh. " At the last moment, you put an end to it all. " 

My eyes drop to my lap when he turns around to face me. " You're a survivor, Chloe, that's why you are still