My heart thudded against my ribcage at a steady pace, the strength at which it was doing so being the only sign that not everything was right. The adrenaline that had filled my body moments ago, was now gone, depleted as if it had never been there.
“Matthew—”
“Don’t.”
My warning was short and simple, and I managed to contain the growl that I had wanted to let out. I shrugged off the hand that Shane had put on my shoulder, desperate to put some distance between the two of us.
He had no right to be here at this point in time. There was too much happening—too much that was going wrong. I couldn’t even witness the birth of my children without witnessing the death of another loved one. I had no idea how I was supposed to feel right now. But I definitely did not want to feel in the presen
