Elegantly Wasted
It isn’t enough to hold back the suffocating agony crushing me.
Jasmine staggers forward, her body trembling, her hands pressing desperately against Alessandro’s unmoving chest as though she could will life back into him. Her breaths are ragged, torn from the depths of her soul, and when her gaze finally meets mine, her wide, tear-drenched eyes say what her lips cannot.
A strangled sob escapes her.
“He’s gone,” she choked out, her voice splintering like fragile glass.
The world tilts.
Something inside me ruptures, a deep, hollow ache spreading through my chest like a poison. I cannot breathe. I cannot think.
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