Chapter 25. Confession

It should have been harder than this to walk down the street with a foot that was just healing from an accident but it wasn’t. I barely felt it.

What I did feel was an unfamiliar pressure in my heart, as if i shouldn’t have left like this, as If I should’ve waited for Damien to return. As if we had an unspoken agreement between us where I should have waited for him to return. As if we had something unexplored between us that needed to be let out.

But… I couldn’t get the phone call out of my mind. He had been so cold.

Okay Seline, I gave myself a pep talk, this is you. Alone, you knew you couldn’t ever rely on anyone. You’ve always taken whatever life handed you and made your peace with it. You can do it again.

I hefted my bag higher, straightened my shoulders and without looking back I made my way out of the building and out into the sunlight. I hadn’t even known I could be this brave, Mari would be proud o