Chapter 11: Lessons

~Adriana~

I drag my hand down my sweating face and look up at the giant tree that still smells faintly like Liam. It’s all I can do to keep my tears at bay. I am so full of hurt and anger that I don’t even know how to handle it anymore. Rosie steps up next to me, her hand on my back as she tries to comfort me. I picked up his scent late last night, but it was too dark to keep searching for him.

Every second I can smell him but not touch him, hear him, breaks me further as I realize all the things I have done wrong to make him feel like he must face this on his own. I should have let him lay everything out on the line for me. Maybe then he would believe he was worthy of being wanted and loved.

“We will catch up to him.” Rosie says softly, and I chuckle at nothing. It’s not a funny statement, and the situation is far from hilarious, but the laughter rolls out from me and I shake my head.

“We will catch him when he wants to be caught.” I say once my hysterical laughter subsides.

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