Chapter 111Sophia"Breathe with me."He said it so softly I almost didn't hear it over my own heart. He was still crouched on the step below me, both his hands still locked around the metal railing, and my fists were still knotted in the front of his scrub top, pulling, and his face was right there in front of mine with the brown back in his eyes and something steady in them now that hadn't been there five minutes ago."I can't," I said. "I'm telling them to let go and they won't.""I know. That's not what I asked." He didn't let go of the railing. "I asked you to breathe with me. Just like you did for me. In. Four. I'll count."I breathed in. It shook."One," Harland said. "Two. Three. Four. Hold it."I held it. My hands didn't move."Out. Slow. One, two, three, four. Hold."We did it again. And again. His voice stayed exactly the same every time, low and even, the voice I'd heard him use with a little boy in the ER last spring who'd put his hand through a window and was screaming b
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