Leah
For a beat, no one moved. No one breathed.
Then, Keanu's arms crashed around me. He pulled me into a hug so fierce it drove the air from my newly functioning lungs. His body shook against mine. Not with fear. With the full, unleashed grief of a boy who had lost every family member he'd ever had and just gotten one of them back.
“I thought I was left alone again.” His voice broke against my shoulder. A whimper crawled up from somewhere deep in his chest, the sound of an old wound tearing open. “Everyone leaves. Everyone always leaves.”
My heart shattered for him. For the boy who had lost his father, who had finally found me only to watch me die with blood pouring from my throat.
“Keanu.” I wrapped my arms around him. Holding him the way I should have held him from the very firs
