Tears exploded from her eyes, the dam broken.
The flood swept me away, left me flailing without a life preserver.
Drowning.
"I knew this couldn't be real." Her bawling was thick. Choked.
I was still adrift in the torrent of her despair, struggling for how to make any bit of this right, console her cascading sorrow.
Gently I swiped the tears from her cheeks, trying desperately to find what she needed.
Like you still cared and wanted to keep me safe.
So I did as I had said: wrapped her in my frigid arms and just let her weep.
AUTHOR'S NOTE
I added a reply when I approved the comment but FFn be FFN around. To my persnickety guest:
It's literally either or; Woah is more traditionally UK English whereas Whoa is US English, but the fact you're nitpicking something that's not even part of the story is kinda odd I guess? But either are correct (see color vs colour, theater vs theatre, draft vs draught, etc etc). Thanks!
Irrelevant fact: I took AP and college-level English classes in high school and my prof for 100-series was British so maybe I'm just fighting years of conditioning that, "It's REALISE not REALIZE, Hollenheist!" because he was a crabby old geezer like that. He also hated my punctuation and threatened to fail my midterm if I didn't start using semis right. He sorely underestimated my willingness to "fuck around and find out" and that's how I was rejected from a community college.
Back to B and E ACTUALLY GETTING SOMEWHERE?