Chapter 15

Anna’s POV

If embarrassment was a human being, then I was the living, breathing proof of it. I’d never in my life felt that humiliated, that stupid, that used. The moment I slammed my door shut, the tears just came, as if they’d been waiting behind my eyes all day, and now they had full permission to drown me. I didn’t even bother to turn on the light, didn’t even take off the blanket I’d stolen in panic while he kicked me out. I just collapsed on my bed and cried into my pillow, my arms wrapped around it so tightly it felt as if I was trying to hold myself together with it.

I cried hard, letting every single sob out. My chest was tight, my head pounding, my heart broken in a way I didn’t even know was possible. How could I let this happen? How could I give so much of myself to someone who didn’t want me?

I was done.

I was so done trying to win the heart of someone who clearly didn’t give a fuck about mine. I had opened up to him. Let him see every vul