Chapter 7

“Give me back my passport.”

“We’re already over.”

“Where I go next is none of your concern, Pax.”

I turned off my phone, the pale glow fading into the darkness.

Silence settled around me, thick and unshakable.

Pax knew I had never left the country before.

Knew I had never even considered applying for a passport.

Yet here I was.

At the beginning of the year, he had mentioned it so casually, like it was just another passing thought.

“I heard the first snowfall in Norway is breathtaking

“You should get your passport sorted. We should go together sometime.”

Back then, I had laughed, brushing him off.

“We should save money first.”

We had never traveled together.

Never even made real plans.

Not for him.

For myself.

I never

phone vibrated again–a voice message.

with disbelief, amusement

said we broke up?”

A short, incredulous laugh.

we were over?”

was maddening.

confidence was ma

Years of Love,

Chapter 7

I know you can’t hear to leave me, but do you really have to play

the trip. You even went and

me.”

you still pretending?”

words sit there,

everything, he still thought I

Not him.

all the years we

I’d forgive, that I’d let this become just another rough patch we’d

thought I’d still be

Then–another message.

frustration giving way to something gentler, something almost

when I told you I wanted

what I wanted to tell

-The lies.

The deception.

crafted act, pretending to be struggling, pretending to be one of us

back early,

A pause.

A sigh

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