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Chapter 192

Author: Lauren
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Knoxx's Point of View

The bottle is half-empty, and the silence in my apartment is too loud. I sit on the couch, staring at nothing. The TV is off. My phone is face down. I haven’t eaten. I haven’t slept much either, unless you count the few hours I passed out on the bathroom floor last night after another round of drinking.

I don't know how many nights it's been like this now.

I pick up the bottle again. My hand shakes slightly, and I pretend not to notice.

She doesn’t love me.

That thought—raw, sharp—keeps cutting deeper every time it returns. I tell myself I’m angry. I tell myself she was manipulated. I tell myself it was Adrian’s fault.

But I know the truth.

She doesn’t love me.

Not anymore. Maybe she never really did. Maybe she just wanted to believe I could be someone worth loving.

I failed her.

“Where the hell did I go wrong?” I mutter to no one.

I slam the bottle down too hard on the table, and it cracks slightly near the base. I glare at it like it's to blame.

The door swings
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