Chapter 23

Is this going to be okay? I couldn’t help but ask myself that big question... But I didn’t quite know what the best answer was.

There’s a saying that goes: If you love something, you must let it go... If it comes back to you, it’s yours, and if it doesn’t come back, it never was... But how will Max come back to my arms if I don’t know where I’ll be?

“I’ll go find you,” he had said. “I won’t need anything but my sense of smell and my instinct... You’re mine now.”

His words echoed in my head, along with the memory of the previous day. A night full of passion was the only goodbye I had before leaving. There I gave him my heart, I declared my love and he did the same.

Now, in my heart, there were no nice feelings; hope was dying. It was no longer a rose garden or a simple, beautiful garden; at this moment, it was no longer that. It was something different. It was bec