When Love Turns into Betrayal
With each floor, I felt pieces of myself cracking, breaking, falling away.
By the time we reached Harper's floor, I was barely holding it together.
She unlocked her apartment, pulled me inside, and locked the door behind us. The moment I heard that lock click, something in me gave way completely.
I collapsed.
Not gracefully. Not cinematically. Just... collapsed. My legs stopped working and I went down hard, suitcase clattering beside me, and the sound that came out of me was animal. Raw. Broken.
"I've got you." Harper was on the floor with me, arms around me, holding me while I shattered. "Let it out. Just let it out."