Broken bones
Ryan's Point of View
Immediately I said it, I felt a thick suffocating silence fill the room.
Pressing against my skin like a second layer.
The weight of my own words hung in the air, settling into every corner of the atmosphere.
My heart pounded in my chest, the rush of blood in my ears pushing out the sharp intake of breath from
the table.
Then, she moved.
Isabella's fingers placed on her lap, the only sign that she had registered my words.
Her shoulders high, her spine stiffening as if she were trying to hold herself together by the force of will.
She didn't cry. She didn't plead. She just sat there, sitting still, her face showing no emotion, her eyes dull and roaming around the table.
Her chest falling and rising as she dragged deep air to her lungs, I felt irritated by it.
Kyle's fingers on my arm rubbed my arms, her nails digging into my sleeve.