Chapter 221

Ethan

Her words didn’t leave me.

They stayed, burned, in my chest like embers under skin. I tried to ignore the feeling, I really did, but it was impossible. After everything, I did not know what came over me. I did not know how it was going to be able to handle it, but I knew this. I did not want to leave it unhandled.

I didn’t even try to train after she walked away. I couldn’t. I took a step back when she was training and once she was done, I left. My body could fight, but my mind… it was stuck in that look she gave me. That edge of betrayal under all her fury. The pain and the anger.

I meant what I said.

And maybe that was the worst part.

Because it hadn’t started as anything serious. Not at first. I thought that it was nothing more than a game, that the two of us were enjoying each other. But when I looked at her, when I saw her looking at me, when I saw her softening towards me… I did not understand what happened, not to me and not to