Rejected and Desired
My heart hammered against my ribs, a wild bird trapped in a cage.
"What's happening?" Jace's voice, now a distant echo, was drowned out by the rising tide of panic.
This was it. The moment he would surely realize that I was broken. Everything today, every second, felt warped. Like I my brain was stuck in a time loop, reliving the same moments, the same conversations, the same anxieties over and over. My mind felt like a clock, ticking relentlessly, but the hands were frozen, stuck at an impossible hour. It felt like it should be bedtime, the world should be bathed in a dusky purple light, but the sun was still high in the sky, a blazing inferno.
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