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.

came tangled with something heavier- something I didn't

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

her back, offering a quick, polite

that, the moment

again, this time thinner,

had originally planned for me to move into his place

But I was exhausted.

lingering at my doorstep as if searching for a

least have dinner

mouth to refuse, but he

if you're still angry, hit me, yell at me, do whatever you

quieter now, rough at the edges, like he wasn't used to speaking

like this. Don't be

then, really looked

in his

the kind that lingered after sleepless

little, as if carrying something heavier than

tighter, nails digging into my

Pain.

ache lodged deep beneath my

Two years.

years of real, honest

I had loved him.

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