Chapter 137

Jaxon POV

I shut the door behind me and just stood there. I couldn’t move. Couldn’t breathe.

She looked at me like I was a stranger. Like I was nothing.

My chest felt like it was caving in. I pressed my back against the door, fists clenched at my sides. The hallway felt too quiet, too empty. I could still hear the sound of her voice telling me to leave. Like it had been carved into me.

Don’t come near me.

I don’t know you.

Please leave.

I squeezed my eyes shut, trying to block it out, but it didn’t work. It was burned in.

Elvira has forgotten me. She didn’t seem to know me atall or was she pretending? 

I wanted to turn around, go back in there, and make