Avery’s pov

His response hit me like a strike to my gut, powerful and painful all at once.” She left?” I repeated, my tone a gust of disbelief.

My mom, she had promised she would be by my side through all of this. I had thought-

I swallowed. Had she lied to me? Did she no longer want to accept that my fate was with Xade and no one else?

The thought was painful and tearing my insides apart. Had she really abandoned me?

Xade’s eyes flickered with something I could not read before it vanishes. However, was able to detect a few of the emotions running before he was able to push them away. Sadness and guilt?

seeming to say those words without much belief in them.

focus on trying

subject. At least for now. And as much as I wanted to push to know the full entire truth

to focus. I had to focus on not

the lump in my throat and nod, pressing my ear once more against his chest to listen to

down the stairs. His parents and the others were behind us, of course, I am sure listening to every word that

somehow block the fear lingering in my body. Xade held me

grind my teeth

in my body to fight my mind from wandering to the pain.

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