Chapter 29

Untold Secret

He just kissed her goodbye and stepped out. He felt like he had revived this part of his life—kissing her and promising to be back at a certain time of the day. He winced, having a flashback of four years ago. The day he last saw his family alive. The day he lost everything, including his confidence. But Alice has brought that back to him. She has brought most of his life back to him. Just one more thing he needed from her, and she’d proven to him she was willing to give that to him despite how risky it was. 

He picked up his pace to the gates not because Zack kept texting him but because he left her at home, alone, and promised to be back in an hour. Whatever the emergency was, he had to fix it within an hour and return home to her. 

The uneasiness he felt leaving her home alone weighed him down. He looked back, feeling the urge to just turn around and return home. The feeling of losing her terrified him more than it should have. Because he knew if h