Third-Person POVAfter returning to Bersky, Rykel didn't step outside for an entire month. Day after day, he stayed in the home he and Chantelle had once shared, shutting himself away behind tightly drawn curtains.Surrounded by piles of empty bottles, he drank the moment he woke and slipped into unconsciousness as soon as the alcohol took hold. Unable to accept how things had ended, he turned to drinking to dull the pain.At least in his dreams, he could still see Chantelle. He could still convince himself that she loved him.But eventually, Rykel came to the horrifying realization that she must have hated him too deeply—so deeply that she would neither appear in his dreams nor leave him with the slightest illusion to cling to.He completely broke down. He shut himself away in the past. Every day, he did nothing but drink and hold their photo album in his hands, turning through the photographs one by one.He kept forcing himself to relive those memories, as though each one were
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