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My eyes started to flutter shut ood-bye’, because really, that was all I had left to give, and the last thing I re, “Miss Rose went dark after that, and I felt nothing I was consumed by a darkness that never ended

IT WAS A few hours later when I started regaining consciousness The harsh light above me hurt my tired eyes and I cowered away froht it

“Demi?”

I openedabove me, her face still red

“What happened?” I croaked, rolling to my side to face her

She sniffled and I saw relief flood her stormy blue eyes “You passed out because of the amount of blood you lost, sweety They had to do a blood transfusion It was touch and go there for a while”

“And the baby?”

Huntley looked down and started crying again “She’s gone”

“So it really happened?” I asked, feeling the onslaught of tears coain Huntley nodded and in that ht had left my body

Huntley crawled in next tobody She carried the weight of hten the burden I found ain, only this tiht left It was just an abyss of endless…black

De o to her The need to co, but I’d decided that just this once deprivingto do

“My baby?” I asked,low but she still nodded I fisted my hair and inhaled deeply It was all I could do not to fall to floor myself I looked around the dark house and tried to wrap ht back to all the ti that I hadn’t once seen her with a baby She cried harder and I took a step closer A brown puppy was pawing at Des, but even then Demi remained on the floor while her body shook Her broken cries taunted my ears and as oing to

“Where is it?” My tone came out harder than I intended “The baby, I mean”

When Deht leave her eyes and itto be good “Tell me, Demetria,” I pressed

“She died,” Demi whispered Tis She?

“We had a daughter?” I sed and feltripped her forear down my face but I didn’t care I’d just been sucker punched and betrayed by the woman I’ve loved more than life itself since I was six years old I think I deserved to fucking cry Demi flinched, and looked away

“Why didn’t you tell ain, “I deserved to know!”

“Brody,” she cried, “I’ reasons if I had told you I c-couldn’t keep you here, so I l-let you go!”

A sense of loss overca through every fiber in my body My blood boiled with it, my bones ached with it

“I can’t believe you would hide this fro at a coer I didn’t know her, not any about our child

She shook her head and I loosened rip on her arms, still afraid that I’d hurt her I was pissed, but I wasn’t about to hurt her physically

“I t-tried to t-tell you,” she sobbed

“When? I never heard from you!”

“I ent to Chicago twowith the words, “died, but I saw you with Sienna and thought you had moved on”

I sat back and wiped ravity of the situation hit me square in the chest It wasn’t only her fault If I hadn’t left none of this would have happened