Josie POV

She saved you. The words echoed relentlessly.

My body was trembling after the revelation, and my mind was desperate to find something, anything, that belonged to that day.

But there was nothing, just darkness where it should have been.

I tried to search my mind for another memory of what happened, but I couldn't remember anything else.

My father said my mind had protected me.

After the bloodshed.

After witnessing more death than any child ever should.

Maybe he was right.

But it didn’t lessen the guilt.

A woman I had never met had given her life for mine, and I couldn’t even remember her face.

I was...