Chapter 203

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My heart breaks.

Not figuratively. At least it doesn't feel like that. It feels physical. Like my heart is actually cracked open, filling me with blood.

Not poetic, like how people describe it in movies.

It's loud in my head. It shatters, devastating and brutal. I can feel it tear open in my chest, like something vital inside me just split apart. Like I'm losing a part of myself all over again.

Losing my family was one thing, they were ripped from, taken from me. I couldn't fight for them, I couldn't see them.

But Zaid?

He's standing right in front of me and still slipping through my fingers.

"No," I whisper, my voice broken, my knees shaking.

I stumble back a step, vision blurring. The world around me bends, spinning slightly as the reality of it crashes down on me.

Zaid's still looking at me with all that love in his eyes, but he's letting me go. Tears spill down my cheeks, hot and endless. My throat clenches so tightly it hurts to breathe. The

ache in my chest blooms into agony and I can't stop it; I break.

My knees buckle.

before I hit

like I'm drowning. Because that's what it feels like. Like the oxygen has been ripped out of the world and

he whispers, holding my cheeks. "Alina,

fabric like it's the only thing

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violent, shaking through my entire

I'll get better. I swear, I'll try

filled with more pain than I can stand to see. "We'll find our way back to each other. We will. I love you, Alina.

thumb under my eye as another tear falls. "But if I need to step away for

myself without

softly, sadly, cupping my face with both hands. His thumbs sweep over my cheeks like he's trying to memorize

I can't

your brilliance. But if you can't see it, then I need to step

hold on to. I press my lips

But he stops me.

voice breaking. He

name shatters me all

you, as a friend. Only as a

again. My face buries into his neck as I calm my breathing, my

nothing will make sense without

speak. Just rocks me gently, fingers in

eventually, when the tears take everything from me, when exhaustion makes

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