It felt like she had been emptied out in an instant, like everything inside her had been crushed into silence. The light went out of Winter’s eyes.Zac lifted his hand to block her view, his warm palm cupping her cold cheek.“Don’t look,” he murmured, holding her steady.But the image wouldn’t go away. Skyla’s arms around Chris kept replaying in her head like a looped nightmare. It flashed, vanished, flashed again, until Winter felt dizzy.She finally bent forward into Zac’s arm and gagged.The dry heave pulled tears out of her. Her face went chalk-white, and her eyes turned so red they looked raw.Behind the floor-to-ceiling glass, Chris shoved Skyla away the moment she grabbed him. Then, as if sensing something, his dark, piercing gaze swept toward the courtyard, landing on Winter being shielded by Zac.She was shaking like she might fall apart.“Chris!” Skyla called, watching him walk away with quick, determined strides.Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed his cane st
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