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Seraphina’s POV 1

I stood at the bus stop three blocks from our house. My hands were shaking. My whole body was shaking.

What the hell did I just do?

The bus wasn’t coming for another fifteen minutes. I kept looking back down the street, toward our neighborhood. Toward the house

where Lily was sleeping in her crib, not knowing her mother just walked out on her.

My throat burned. I wanted to cry, but the tears wouldn’t come. It was like my body had shut down completely.

*Move, I told myself. *You wrote the letter. You made the choice. Now move.*

But where was I supposed to go?

I hadn’t thought about that part. I’d been so focused on leaving, on doing the right thing, that I never planned what came next. Now I

was standing here like an idiot at a bus stop, with nowhere to go and no idea what to do.

The small bag in my hand felt impossibly heavy. Just a few clothes, some cash I’d saved up, my phone. Everything I owned now fit in one

little overnight bag.

I couldn’t go to Ophelia’s. That would be the first place Damien looked. And Ophelia would take one look at me and demand answers.

She’d probably call Damien herself once she found out what I’d done.

were still out there. Without

woman with

My heart jumped

*Damien.*

screen, it was just

the only way to be

was weak like that.

twist into knots. He was

the book. Probably realizing

him. Now he didn’t

arrived with a loud hiss of brakes. The doors opened and I climbed on, dropping my fare into the slot. The driver barely looked at me. Just another passenger going

pressed my face against the window. The bus pulled away from the stop,

everything I’d ever loved.

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coffee shop where Damien and I had our first date. Past the park where Adrian learned to ride his bike.

gave birth

looked so normal.

I wanted to scream.

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children. My chest felt like someone was squeezing it in a

them,* I kept telling myself.

right.

had to get off at the next stop because I couldn’t breathe anymore. The bus pulled away, leaving me standing alone on a street corner

I

diner and ordered coffee. The waitress was human. She smiled at me

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