Chapter 247

Ethan

I didn’t go back to the house.

Not after the way that she looked at me, not after the way that she asked me to leave as if I was something that she didn’t want around her.

I couldn’t.

No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t bring myself to do so.

Her words replayed in my head like a cursed loop. One that I wanted to escape and yet, it was almost impossible for me to do so.

Stop trying. Don’t care. Go.

Every part of me itched to turn around, to say something else, anything else, but I didn’t. Because for the first time in my life, I didn’t know how to fix what was in front of me. I didn’t know what to do when it came to a relationship that I wanted to do anything in my power to maintain.

Delilah wasn’t just pushing me away. She wasn’t just stepping back from me, no. I wished that it was like that but it wasn’t.

Delilah was trying to escape.

She was disappearing.

And I didn’t know how to pull her back withou