Semua Bab Belong with them: Bab 41 - Bab 43

Ryan"Everything in place?" I asked."Yes, Mr. Crawford. All confirmed," my security head replied, curt and tight."Good." I hung up.Sighing, I leaned against the handrail at the end of the stairs. My mind was working through all the shitstorm from the last few days.Amy was ambushed by a few idiot reporters outside the grocery store. Silas got her out fast, but that did not matter. She carried it home with her and tried to hide it. She always tried to hide things she did not want to burden me with. But I could practically taste her nervousness.She tossed and turned half the night before finally telling me what they had shouted at her.Maybe I am really not good enough for you.She had said it so quietly, her eyes wet, like she was sure. And something in me had gone very still and very certain all at once. I couldn't stop cursing myself for not protecting her enough from this world.I spent the rest of that night proving her wrong. Thoroughly. By the end of it, she had forgotten eve

RyanThe sun was shining so brightly it made me squint. The kind of weather that belonged to picnics and open windows and long drives with no destination. Not this. Not the sound of earth hitting a coffin lid while the birds carried on as if nothing had stopped.I held Amy's hand firmly and said nothing because there was nothing to say. The way she was standing beside me, so still, so dull, so completely... unlike herself, I moved my thumb to her wrist without thinking, just to feel her pulse. Just to confirm she was still here with me.Three days. It had been three days, and I still could not get the image out of my head. The phone hitting the floor. Her wet eyes in the dark. That voice so small it barely made a sound when she said she's gone. I never want to hear Amy's voice sound like that again. I never want to see her this still again.She had not cried since that night after the hospital. Not once. She had gone somewhere deep inside herself that I did not have the map to, and I