24
Larkin
I am lying in my bed, still furious. I cried for almost an hour, but now I’m steaming in silence. I can’t fall asleep, no matter how long I lie here, staring at the ceiling. I roll onto my side, sighing.
I keep hearing Charlie’s words over and over again, jumbled around in my brain.
But it might be what you need.
The anger simmering in his eyes when he said that, the fierce conviction of his words… they give me chills, hours and hours afterward.
If Charlie really feels that way, I’ll have to let him go. There’s no other choice, not really. But the thought of letting him and Sarah go… of never seeing either of them again, or worse — seeing them from a distance — it crushes me.
I thought I was all cried out, but tears bloom anew in the corners of my eyes. A life without Char
