Chapter 49. A Choice

The knocking on the door was muffled by my pillow and the blanket I had placed over my head. Everywhere was silent and noisy, and the sound of my heart breaking was way louder than everything all together.

It was like glass shattering. A million glasses. My heart was breaking into a million pieces, and there was nobody I could blame except myself.

Danielle was right. I was naive and too trusting. I placed my confidence and my fragile heart in the hands of an unknowing wrong person, and if that wasn’t the loudest call for heartbreak, I didn’t know what else it was. And I was too dumb to realise it.

My chest was hurting badly, and it felt like I was going to die, yet I could not shed a single tear, even when I was in such great pain. My eyes had been glued to my phone screen since I got the message.

I could not look away, and I could not delete it. I was just staring at it because I had no idea what I could do. I didn’t want to believe it. Yes, that must be the