unconscious Xavier

Rachael held Xavier's hands as she cried. He wasn't moving, just lying on the hospital bed, pale white.

Rachael's eyes were already red and puffy. She had no intention to stop crying because her paranoid brain kept bringing up different scenarios of him ending up dead.

The door opened and Rachael's sister walked in. Bella's eyes were red too, but she tried to act tough, fighting the urge not to cry.

"Can you leave the two of us together?" As she said those words, her eyes never left her brother.

Rachael was stunned. There was no way his sister didn't know her as Hardy's murderer. Yet she didn't look at her with disdain or anger. Probably she was too concerned for Xavier to pay attention to the murder suspect by his side. Rachael, after standing up from where she had crouched, walked quietly to the door

When Bella was left all alone with Xavier, she began to sob. "Fine you win" she admitted. "You broke me"

"I was so devastated when I heard what happened. I could breathe. There was