Chapter 75

The hallway was dim, narrow, and heavy with the scent of rain. Faint droplets

tapped against the windows, the muffled hum of water slipping through cracks in the pavement outside filling the silence between us.

I froze.

For a brief, breathless moment, I thought this was it.

The moment the truth would slip out.

That Pax would finally piece everything together.

That my plans to leave would be dragged into the open, no longer something I

could quietly pack away with the rest of my belongings.

But instead-

He smiled.

"Of course we are."

His certainty was effortless, unwavering.

He thought she was talking about Norway.

flooded through me, but it came tangled with something heavier- something I didn't want

she wanted to say more, but her boyfriend-quicker, sharper-seemed to sense the sudden shift in the

offering a quick, polite farewell before leading

that, the moment

again, this

planned for me to

But I was exhausted.

voice careful, steady. He hesitated, lingering at my doorstep as if searching for a reason to stay. Then, as

have dinner with me

opened my mouth to refuse, but he cut me off

me, yell at me, do

like he wasn't used to speaking this way-like he

this. Don't be so...

then, really looked

in

his eyes, the kind that lingered after

his shoulders slumped just a little, as if carrying something heavier than

fingers tighter,

Pain.

an ache

Two years.

of real,

I had loved him.

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