" Why?” I asked, confused. Why did he care?

“Why what?”

“Why was he having a panic attack?”

She stared at me with her eyes wide before she leaned in.
“Lila…because he thought he’d lost you; he thought you were dead.”

“He didn’t have me to lose.” My breathing picked up as the emotional pain tightened my chest. “He threw me away. "

― K.I. Lynn , Infraction (Breach, #2)