Chapter 56. A Crushing Realization

AXEL

I couldn’t decide what emotions I was feeling for this woman. It was a mess, swirling from one emotion to another. But the one I felt the most, that made it hard to breathe, was devastation.

Devastation that this wonderful woman wasn’t mine, that she didn’t know the depth of my feelings for her. And devastation that there was no way to show her the full depth of it.

If I could rip my chest open and show her how my heart was beating for her, God, I would do it.

And out of nowhere came a realization; I was in love with her.

My eyes grew wide, my hands dropping from her hips.

I was… I was in love with Rosette.

I’ve never been in love before, but what I was feeling? This emotion that was driving me to ruin and wreckage? It could only be described as love.

I’ve seen love and I’ve seen what it does to people.

Rosette stopped moving, her chest heaving, her eyebrows furrowed with worry. The soft look in her eyes ripped through my he