After the video ended, the room was plunged into a deep, heavy silence. None of us moved, not a single inch. I stared at the screen that had gone blank, thinking, “Thank you too, Lucien.” I would have left that day. If it weren't for this protocol, I would have left that day, never looking back, hurting, unaware I was leaving my mates behind. We probably would never meet again. Or we might have never seen each other, and… that empty feeling would only grow until it swallowed us. Or maybe we would have moved on eventually. But either way, it would have hurt. It would have hurt so much.“Well…” Elias muttered as the silence stretched into something uncomfortable, each of us too locked in our heads, and my heart was racing because of what I was about to say. They wouldn't like it. I know they wouldn't.“Well,” Damian said.“That’s over, so we–”“I want to see Elena,” I blurted out, cutting Roman off, and that silence cloaked the room again. This time, it was suffocating.Slowly, th
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