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.

me, but it came tangled with something heavier-

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

lightly, pulling her back, offering a quick, polite farewell before

like that, the moment

this time

originally planned for me to move into his

But I was exhausted.

back from Norway," I said, my voice careful, steady. He hesitated, lingering at my doorstep as if searching for a reason to stay. Then, as if conceding to an unseen compromise,

at least have dinner with me

to refuse, but he cut

me, yell

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

be like this.

at him then, really looked

slight dishevelment in his normally

exhaustion beneath his eyes, the kind that lingered after

a little, as if carrying something heavier than he

tighter, nails digging

Pain.

an ache lodged deep

Two years.

years of real, honest

I had loved him.

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