REID POV
“What the f**k just happened?” I ask, clutching Taryn against my body.
She trembles and her skin is colder than ice, her teeth chattering and her eyes squeezed shut. She snuggles closer to me, gripping my sweatshirt, her face burying into the fabric as she takes deep breaths. I keep one arm around her waist and cup her cheek with the other, my eyes scanning her face, my heart pounding like a drum in my chest, worry and fear rushing through me like a jolt of lightning in my veins.
Her beautiful skin has a gray tinge to it, and her eyelids flutter in time with her shivering body. Her heart beats faster than mine, and rapid breaths force her chest and shoulders up and down at an unnatural pace. I clutch the back of her head and hug her to my chest again, swaying side to side, hopi
