Chapter 44: Apologies Accepted

Chapter 44: Apologies Accepted

Faith’s P.O.V

I turned around slowly, my heart a wild tattoo against my ribcage that threatened to burst out of my chest at any instant.

I hadn't expected Brandon to be awake.

All night long, I had been thinking about every possible kind of scenario of what would happen when I got to see him again. I knew getting Debby to give into my request wasn’t going to be a big deal…but what about what came after? How was I going to deal with that?

I had thought about it too. About how I was going to run into his embrace; wrap my arms around him tightly and tell him that everything was going to be alright.

But now that I was here…facing Brandon…all my strength, all my courage just seemed to fly out the window.

He was all beat up. And he looked terrible since the first time I saw him.

His face wasn’t damaged, thanks to the helmet, but his right arm was bandaged from his elbow, down to his wrist and his left had too had visible scars, if not many. His left leg was in