Chapter Fourteen

Nina’s pov-

My chest was tight with the ache in my heart. It just seems so surreal to know that Ashton was really gone, to know that my mum was really gone. everything feels empty with the knowledge that yet another person I cared for was no longer here. if I text him, I now wouldn’t get a reply. if I needed my mother she wouldn’t be there to answer when I call.

I gripped at Mavericks shirt, my forehead leaning against his chest. The touch of his palm soothing me in the sweetest way as he held me against his body. He smelt so good, the smell of his cologne a warmth to me. I was no longer crying but I couldn’t bring myself to let him go, I was afraid that if I did, I would break all over again. I was a girl who didn’t break, I didn’t want to break. but here I am, in the arms of a boy I had met only once. He was a stranger but, in this moment, he didn’t feel like one. In this moment he was much more, he was my anchor to the ground, my safety jacket that let me swim without drowning.

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