Chapter 72. Doomed for Life (1)

RENEE

Monday came speedily, as usual. 

Watery eyes fluttering open, I looked at the clock by my bedside with a frown as the numbers blurred together. 

The time was 7:00 a.m. 

I should be getting ready for my morning shift at work. I told myself this, but I couldn't even get out of bed. 

I felt trapped, strewn atop the soft mattress, with swollen eyes and aching bones. It wasn't just the lack of sleep—my nights had been spent crying and bawling my eyes out—or the fatigue. 

No, it was much more. 

The fortified walls built within me were no longer there anymore. The barriers between me and the emotions that flooded my heart were long gone. 

And now the floodgates of guilt, anger, shame, and repulse had opened up since that fateful night. 

They spilled forth whenever I thought of him. Whenever I saw his name lit up my phone’s screen as he barraged me with never-ending