Chapter 111

He held up his hand stopping me once more. I pursed my lips together to keep my words inside.

“I’m so… so sorry. I didn’t know… I didn’t see… What… I just-” He was choking up so horribly that even in the dark I could almost see the tears in his eyes.

“Stop. Please.”

“No, dammit! Listen! I’m trying to apologize!” he shouted frustrated.

“I know you are. But stop.”

“I want you to know, to understand!” he continued holding his hands towards me pleading.

I sidestepped them feeling my own anger and repressed emotions taking over my calm façade.

“Understand what!?” I shouted. “Understand that you left me behind!? Alone?! Unprotected and helpless?!”

“I thought you were dead!” he fired back.

“You should have waited!”

“I did! I waited two days!” he exclaimed throwing his hands in the air. “You never awoke. Never even stirred. By the last hour you weren’t even breathing! What would you have had me do?”

“Take me with you! Don’t leave me behind for the Eaters!”