“I’m sorry,” Ren whispers. “I’m sorry it had to be this way.” It takes me a moment to digest what he’s said, and I turn to face him, staring into his vacant eyes, which are focused on the fire off in the distance.
“What did you do?” My voice cracks, all my emotions giving way. I don’t even have to think about it. She’s dead. There is no way she survived a crash like that, yet I somehow hold on to the hope that she did because the thought of her dying because of me kills me.
When Ren finally looks at me and replies, my entire world flips upside down. “What you couldn’t.”