Chapter 49: STAY

CASSIAN'S POV “Stay with me! Rhea stay with me! Don't you dare die on me!” I cradled her head. The place was quiet around us, the road had been deserted, caution tapes surrounded us, three cops stood next to us, each of them looking sympathetically at Rhea. She looked pale, almost as pale as she had been before when got to Shiraya's shrin, after that person had pushed her. Almost as lifeless as she had looked when she laid limply unmoving as she was carried out of the car to Shiraya's shrine. I had the same irrational fear I did that time. I had the same urge to protect her, the same mind boggling guilt I had felt for not protecting her, for leaving her alone, for giving that person the opportunity to hurt her. I felt that same guilt except this time it was a lot worse, this time I had no one else to blame but myself. This time I was the one who had let her down, I was the one who had put her in harms way by walking away from her even though I should not have. The rules were s