April's eyes fell closed, her teeth gritting together in pained frustration. Her instinct was to crawl across the table and curl up with him in her arms, but she was fighting it with every fiber of her being, and it hurt.

"Why are you doing this to me?" she whispered, the tears finally falling, her face scrunching up as her resolve slowly crumbled in spite of her best efforts. "Why won't you just let me go?"