RED "I don't think I can do this." I breathed out into the receiver as I stared at the double doors before me. "Why would you even say that?" I blink back into the present and clutch my phone tighter in my hands. "Link, I'm not ready to see your brother beg for his chosen's innocence." I hear him sigh, talk to someone in the background for a minute, then reply to me. "He's not going to do that with you in the room." I laugh sardonically and lean against the marble walls as my chest clenches painfully at a memory I'd forever hate. "You act like you haven't been with me all those times your brother defended Melanie's honour." He breathes out and talks to someone in the background before answering me. "Sorry." He pauses then breathes out. "I'll be there in an hour-" My heart clenches at