VIOLETI didn't remember deciding to leave. It was just a fraction of a second when staying felt like it would be too unbearable.Why stay where you weren’t loved? Weren’t even wanted?The room felt too small. The walls pressed in on me, the air thick and suffocating, every breath scraping my lungs like some sort of punishment. Reese was still talking. Her voice was soft, pleading and trying to anchor me. Still, but her words blurred together, almost sounding meaningless against the roar tearing at my skull.I never loved her.Lucian's voice wouldn't leave me alone.It played on repeat, each time sharper, each time cutting deeper, until I swore I could feel something inside my chest splitting open. The words had been delivered with such cold precision, as if he'd rehearsed them before coming to the chamber.As though every syllable had been weighed and measured for maximum impact. To make sure it cut as deeply as possible. And they had landed exactly as intended. Devastating, final, a
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