Pearl I found Zander in the kitchen, busy with whatever the fuck he was doing. Usually, I would ask him what he was making for dinner and taunt him to not burn the kitchen down, but right now, I wasn't in the mood. Hell, I couldn't even feel my own body right now. It was a miracle how I'd been able to even walk here without passing out, or at least running into the nearest wall. The message was still open on my phone, the screen dimming and brightening with my pulse. As I pushed the phone towards him, I realized my hands didn’t shake. It surprised me, and when my voice shook, I almost lost it. “I got this,” I said. I didn’t explain, I didn’t preface or try to sugarcoat it. I just walked up to him and held the phone out between us like evidence.Zander dried his hands on a towel before taking it, and that pause, small, and deliberate, made my stomach tighten. He read the message once, then again, and again, but his face didn’t change.He didn’t react the way people did when they
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