Chapter 52

"He ran from the room to go clean himself up or something and it left me on my own with your dying body on the floor. You were still alive, I could see, but on the brink of death. My back was pressed up against the door and just like every other time in my life, I froze. I couldn't move or breathe and all the fight or flight bullshit went out the window because I froze."

"Reniella," he interrupted. 

"I probably stood and stared for ten minutes while you were helpless on the floor. I could have saved you! But, I didn't. And because of that, I technically killed you. I watched you bleed out, I let it happen. It's my fault!" Heavy tears built from the back of my eyes but I wouldn't let them out, I needed to see Deshawn now.

"Ross said it was my fault a