Chapter 18

If you looked at it from another angle. Nina was pathetic in her own way.She had spent years believing in an

illusion

Convinced that she and Pax were something more than childhood friends. That their bond was built on mutual affection, not just habit.

She had left the country thinking she had a place in his heart–a permanent one.

And when she returned, the boy who had once braved storms to pick her up at the airport, who had stood there waiting for her, drenched, breathless, eyes filled with devotion had moved on in just two days.

The world hadn’t stopped for her.

The sharp wall of sirens cut through the air.

Red and blue lights pulsed against the glass storefronts, the reflections casting an eerie glow over the marble floors.

The paramedics moved quickly, their voices urgent but professional.

Nina was still conscious, her skin ghastly pale against the stark white of her dress.

The blood had already begun to seep through the delicate fabric, a slow, spreading stain.

Pax stood beside me, his expression carefully blank.

his hands,fisted tightly at

tension in his shoulders, and the way his

He was worried.

let himself

my lips curling

“Go.”

had all been about him,

only a second before he stepped forward, but not

quick,

faint trace

for

of Love. Seven

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everything will be

Because he was right it really would be over.

few hours later….

onto the counter, the soft material absorbing the glow of the store’s

careful motion, she lifted the lid, revealing a stunning diamond

ring big enough to silence doubts Big enough to convince someone to

the sales associate asked

I smiled.

don’t need it anymore.”

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