Chapter 34

Sienna

His words stuck with me.

They played in my head on repeat, as if telling me that this was something that was never going to change, that it was something that he wanted to be the way that it was. That he did not want it happening again.

We grew up.

I knew that. I wasn’t naïve. I wasn’t clinging to some childish fantasy that things could go back to how they once were. I was in clinging on the fact that the two of us can go back to running around the forest without no care, not worrying about the problems that were occurring around us, not having any responsibilities. It was just the two of us, against all the odds.

But did that mean we couldn’t at least try? Did that mean that we couldn’t at least try to be friends, or at least try and make a moment out of it? The two of us had a child together, and yet here I was being treated as if I was nothing but a weakling.

Did growing up mean that everything between us had to turn into bitterne