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.

hands,fisted tightly

the way his jaw

He was worried.

just wouldn’t let himself

out a slow breath, my lips curling into something faintly amused.

“Go.”

had all been about him, up to this

he stepped forward, but not before pulling me into a brief

was quick, but firm.

crisp, familiar. A faint trace of cologne mixed with something

wait for me.”

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Chapter 18

tonight, everything will be over.”

right it really would be

few hours later….

placed a velvet box onto the counter,

the lid, revealing

Big enough to convince someone to stay.

the sales associate asked politely, assuming

I smiled.

don’t need

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