I was about to meet, more fully than I ever had, a hero.

Chapter 17 — Don’t Ruin It

“Please, Gabriel,” I said, and I reached back and grabbed the cold wall behind me to hold myself up.

“Please don’t.

Don’t ruin four beautiful years of watching my sister be happy because of you.

Whatever this is, I don’t want it.

Let me keep what I’ve seen.”

“You think I want to be standing in this hallway telling you this while she is in there fighting for her breath?” he shot back, and there was something raw and almost angry in it, the anger of a man being forced to do the hardest thing of his life.