Chapter 68

I clean the apartment while Sel sleeps to distract myself from the fact that my text to David has a red exclamation mark next to it that reads, “Undelivered.”

I’m not too sure what I expected. While I haven’t exactly fleshed out the terms and conditions of David staying with me last night, a part of me had hoped that he would be willing to talk to me. Or that he would stay until I woke up. Or that he would at least be willing to accept my text this morning that says, “Please can we talk?”

The fact that it can’t even be delivered to his phone tells me that David has blocked my number. And that somehow hurts more than finding he had already left when I woke up.

It feels like the final nail in the coffin, telling me that he is done.

I message Marcus as well. My text to him goes through, and it even shows that it has been read, but he