Chapter30:

Chapter 30 EVA'S POINT OF VIEW  My whole world is falling apart. The police sirens are getting louder and louder, like they're screaming just for me. I can't stop shaking. I'm still on the floor, and it's so cold down here, but I can't seem to make myself get up. Everything's spinning around me like one of those carnival rides that make you sick. Every time I close my eyes, even for a second, I see grandpa Lucas lying there. God, there was so much blood. My hands are still covered in it, I tried to save him, I really did. But now that blood is like proof of something I didn't do, and I can't wash it away. Max is standing across the room, and it's killing me. He looks like a stranger now. His face is all hard and angry, like someone carved it out of stone. How can he look at me like that? After everything we've been through together? "Eva." The way he says my name... it's like he's spitting out something gross. "How could you?" My throat feels so tight it hurts. "Max, please," I beg him