ALEX
“We went to Denver, to do a rock-climbing lesson, Cassie was the most daring of the three, so she was going ahead with the guide, we were sharing rope, but something happened that her harness gave way and she fell, pulling me with her.”
“Oh, Alex...”
“We were barely ten meters off the ground, she would have survived, but I fell on her.”
I squeezed my hands on his shoulders to comfort him, feeling his pain as my own.
“And what happened?”
"I broke several of her ribs,” he murmured staring at the ceiling, "That made it pierce a lung... she died of respiratory arrest."
“And you?” I asked a while later, "Did something happen to you?"
"Not a scratch,” he answered a while later, "She died in my arm
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