LivI blinked a couple times and the world came back all fuzzy like someone had smeared Vaseline on my eyes, and the first thing I felt was this heavy hand squeezing mine so tight I thought my fingers might snap off. Rowan. He was right there hunched over the bed, face all blotchy and wet, snot running down like he hadn’t bothered to wipe it in days, and the second my eyes stayed open he just lost it completely. “Liv, oh God, Liv you’re awake, you’re really awake,” he choked out, voice cracking like a teenager, and then the tears really started pouring, big ugly sobs that shook his whole body. “I thought you were gone, I swear I would’ve killed myself if you died, I had it all planned out in my head, the pills, the note, everything, because what the fuck is the point without you, and now you’re here and you’re breathing and thank you, thank you for staying alive, I don’t deserve it but thank you.”He kept repeating thank you like a broken record, forehead pressed to my knuckles, and I
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