Chapter 43: Heartbreak

Eden shrugged out of his coat as quickly as he could manage and wrapped it around Laurel before lifting her from the ground and hurrying back to his room at the inn. He didn’t know what had set her off and he wasn’t entirely sure that she could answer him. She wasn’t responding to anything he said, so he stopped asking.

When he arrived at the inn, he went quickly up to his room and set her at the table in the center of the room. She seemed calmer, wrung out from sobbing as she sat with her head bowed, staring out into nothing.

He poured a glass of water and sat it beside her as she sniffled and waited for her to come back to the world.

“I'm sorry...” Laurel gasped. “I stained your clothes...”

Eden frowned before looking down and chuckled. There was a bit of dirt on his clothes, but he wouldn’t call them stained.

“You didn't do anything wrong.” Eden shook his head. “Do you want to talk about what happened?”

Laurel worried her lip, averting her gaze as she pulled his jacket closer ar