Chapter Thirty-Two

Harper's POV:

"Fine."

The word ripped out of my throat and my hand was already on the door handle... already shoving it open before I could think about what I was doing.

I threw myself out of his car and my feet hit the pavement hard enough to jar my knees.

The door slammed behind me.

I stood there on the sidewalk with my chest heaving and watched his taillights get smaller... smaller... until they disappeared around a corner and he was gone.

He actually left me. My hands started shaking and I pressed them against my thighs trying to make them stop but they wouldn't... they just kept trembling like my whole body was trying to come apart.

"You told him fine." I said it out loud to the empty street. "You told him to go."

But I didn't think he actually would.

I thought he'd circle back immediately... thought I'd hear the engine roaring as he came back for me, thought he'd get out and grab me and tell me he was sorry and I was an idiot for getting out in the first place.

But the street st