The Playbook for Heartbreak
And then, like a physical blow straight to his chest, the blurred, raw memory of the late night hit him.
He remembered gripping her wrist. He remembered drawing her small hand down to his chest, feeling her pulse fluttering against his skin. He remembered looking into her wide, luminous dark eyes and pouring out the dark, desperate truth he had been hiding from himself for weeks: *Don't leave the penthouse, Brooks. Stay here. With me.*
Terry closed his eyes, letting out a low, shuddering exhale that vibrated through his ribs.
It hadn't been a hallucination. It hadn't been a dream induced by a hundred-and-two-degree fever. It was the unfiltered, terrifying truth that had been building inside