Chapter 52VINCENZO POVThe ride back home was a graveyard of unsaid words and painful echoes. Not the comfortable kind of quiet that falls over two people when everything’s okay. No. This one sliced. It pulsed with tension and hurt, like the walls of the car were closing in with every second that ticked by.Kyomi was sitting next to me. But she may as well be a continent away.Her arms were wrapped around her middle, like she was trying to hold herself together. Her eyes were fixed on the window, unmoving, unblinking. I reached for her hand, slow, deliberate, like approaching a wild animal that might bolt, or a bomb on the edge of exploding. She flinched, her body coiling inwardly like a spring. a My hand froze in midair.That did something cruel to me. It tore me open, yanking my soul right from my body, I retracted, leaned back into the leather seat, and tried to steady my breathing. Everything in me wanted to scoop her into my lap and hold her until the world fixed itself, fix
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