All Chapters of KILL FOR HER |18+: Chapter 41 - Chapter 42

Slight Warning I hadn't gone home. A week passed, and I was still here. My parents called once. Just once. Their voices were polite. Distant. They asked if I was okay. I said yes. I wasn't. I didn't tell them anything. The only person I really spoke to was Lizzy. She was still with our grandparents, which meant she didn't have to see how empty I felt. She didn't have to worry about me being alone at home. The week I spent with Nico wasn't what people would imagine. It wasn't passionate or reckless. It was quiet. Some days I didn't want to eat. Some days I didn't want to talk. Some days I just stared at the ceiling, exhausted in a way sleep didn't fix. And Nico stayed anyway. He watched movies with me, even when I didn't really follow the plot. He sat beside me when I cried, never rushing me, never asking questions I wasn't ready to answer. He held me when the weight in my chest felt unbearable, his arms steady, like he was anchoring me to something real. He even asked En