Chapter 71

GRACIE

I stared in a daze-like state as the door slammed close merely inches away from my face, a part of my brain went numb, I couldn’t think of anything.

But I could feel everything just fine.

The pain was raw, burning… intense, tearing my insides and coursing through my veins like molten lava.

He had look so dark, I had felt the dark intense rage emanating from him, it had shaken my core with terror.

For a moment I saw HIM. I had feared that HE was back.

I cowered.

Then he had suddenly let go like he had been scorched by my action.

The act of him letting go of me had snapped something in me, but it had been too late.

The fear hadn’t left me, but it was a different kind, this time I was afraid for him.

The damage had been done already to him.

I was hurt. Then I had hurt him.

My body trembled uncontrollably, I knew deep in my bones that I just lost two people.

Shawn.

And him.

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