Chapter 47-Saved For Now

Caroline’s POV:

When I jumped, I knew at that moment that I truly wanted to die. The world was just too horrible. It wasn’t fair to my father because he needed me now more than ever, but I couldn’t live my life full of shame and void of my dignity.

There was a terrifying chance that I might survive and live with a disability for the rest of my life, but it made no difference to me. I was a cancer patient, after all, so I was doomed from the start.

The tragic splat of my body hitting the ground never came. In fact, I wasn’t falling at all. My wrist was held in a death grip as I dangled five stories above the rain-spattered ground.

Looking up in confusion, I saw William’s face at the window, grasping my wrist with a pained expression. Why was he trying to save me? Why did he look so terrified at the thought of my death? Isn’t that what he wanted: for me to die?

“Hold on,” he rasped in a scared voice, struggling to pull me back into his arms. “I’ll pull you up!” The rain was rapidly l