Love That Wasn't Meant to Last

Chapter 51

I bent down, picked up a shard of the broken remote, and drew it across my arm without hesitation.

It happened fast. After a slight sting, a thin line opened, and blood began seeping out. It trickled down my arm and dripped onto the floor.

Zion froze, looking stunned. Only after several drops of blood hit the ground did he snap out of it, shouting, "Hudson, what are you doing? Are you hurting yourself?"

Selena, too, realized what I had done. She grabbed my arm, her eyes filled with fear, though she quickly relaxed. She saw it was just a shallow cut on my skin, not my veins.

I never told them, but I once had a mild depression.

a CEO was as grueling and demanding. There was high pressure and an insane amount of tasks, long hours, difficult clients, troublesome subordinates, and unreachable goals. Each of these issues pierced my heart like

life. Was this all there was to it? Why were

it all so that I didn't have to suffer anymore. But in the

come to mind, flashing before my eyes. My will to live was rekindled by looking at her pictures and thinking about what she said to me. In those moments, life was

a mess, but at least I still

too, would betray me and our

to the edge

met Sylvia afterward. If Selena had been my first ray of sunlight, Sylvia was my second, one that

needed to find a way to get back

his reluctance, he went to find a doctor