All Chapters of Alexa and the Badboy: Chapter 131

Ice Queens Need Love TooCHAPTER THIRTY SEVENAurora's POVWhen Knox drove away, the silence that followed felt heavier than the night.I stood at the window long after his taillights disappeared, arms wrapped around myself, forehead pressed to the cold glass. The quiet pressed in from every corner of the house, so thick it rang in my ears. Normally, I loved silence. It was safe, predictable, mine. But tonight, it was a prison.Because silence meant memory. And memories… were knives.I closed my eyes, but Noah’s grin was there, sharp and mocking. Kristy’s laugh echoed, dripping with the same poison it always had. One look at them, one sound of their voices, and I was seventeen again, locked in a bathroom stall with my chest caving in, breath coming too fast, knowing they were outside, waiting to cut me down all over again.I shook my head, trying to clear it, but the image clung stubbornly.Knox’s face tried to cut through the storm, his steady gaze, the way he’d slipped his hand ov