Chapter 174

Delilah

The ride back was quiet.

Not because the road was smooth, far from it.

But because the storm that lived inside me had finally settled into something colder, something still. I wasn’t angry anymore.

I was done being angry.

I chose to take a taxi. It was the one thing that was going through my mind, me of where I really came from. I needed to think straight and I knew that letting anyone drop me off was not going to do me any good. Calling them was not going to do me any good. And I was far too angry. I needed this time for myself.

The estate loomed before me, the towering black structure I once viewed as a home now resembled nothing more than a cage. The place that I thought would be a reality to me, that I thought would be my fresh beginning, that I was so jealous of not living in, was now nothing more than my hell.

But I walked through its gates anyway.

I walked through because I knew that someone inside needed me and I