Three Years, One Cruel Lie

he ragged tears in my arm, his presence a heavy, suffocating weight. He kept his phone face down on his lap,

if I so much as sneezed, couldn' t even be bothered to look

lly asked, his voice low.

ad, not trust

swear, Krystal and I... it' s just for show. It' s for the family, f

, the same em

I asked, my voice barely a whisper.

would all work out, and he didn' t care who got hurt in the process. In that moment,

as

His back was to me, but I could hear the change in his voice. The cold, tense tone he u

ring. "I' ll be home soon. Yes, I'

lked away. I di

he protected her. Instinct doesn' t lie. He wasn' t just

was just a fact. A cold, hard fact that se

anniversary, the day I had promised his mother I would disappear. Jaxon, in a

will be upset?" I asked, poki

" he snapped, a flash o

d in silence. It

small, velvet box. Inside was a be

roud smile on his face. "If you don' t

in a paparazzi photo from a gala six months ago. He hadn' t even bothered t

f emotion in me di

said, my voice em

ked re

ant window suddenly exploded with light. A me

"I heard some tech billionaire made this h

ce promised to show me a meteor shower. For a dizzyin

there, her face tear-streaked, her eyes wild. She

ing a shaking finger at me. "You poisoned