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"What?"

I sat forward in my seat My heart dropped to my stomach

"He’s at NHC He’s been intubated"

I floored it, ignoring the light, cutting the wheel, and turning around in the ave a half-assed apologetic wave as I sped down the road in the opposite direction I was heading, passing the warehouse

"Brian? Did you hear ht I felt sick "Yeah, I heard you"

"I’m sorry," Mona cried softly

Chapter Twenty-two

SYDNEY

I kept replaying ain in ony all over again, seeing the pain in his eyes and hearing the hurt and hatred in his voice as he ad it

The as getting to ht along with hi Tori under no circumstance was she allowed to let me leave the house the past two days I handed over my keys and my cell I wasn’t on schedule to work, and I knew if I had ive hiive hinore

Only uilt s him up like that

And I felt sorry for hi about what had to have been going through his o How shattered heand how it probably tore him apart

He didn’t want to shoot those videos He didn’t want any part of it I believed that in ut

I wondered how different it would’ve been if Marcus had tossed me aside before that accident and if I would’ve met Brian under different circumstances In my soul I kneould’ve, Brian and I would’ve found each other sootten hiot to feel that bla he never would’ve sold himself to pay back that debt

I could’ve stopped this entire night

I could’ve kept Brian froiven hi he was feeling

My heart was crazy

Officially

Love, unbearably so, but I cared h all of this I wondered if he was crying or ripping shit apart I wondered if it was killing hi over I wondered if he was staring up at his bedroo about hio to him