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32 OceanofPDF.com K VALENTINA ane wasn’t at school Monday morning. I’d known that would be the case but hadn’t anticipated just how desolate my life would feel without him. His absence was a preview of times to come if we couldn’t bridge the gap between us, and I would have done anything to avoid the resulting emptiness. The impending loss was a rancid cancer growing in the pit of my stomach. I couldn’t escape the feeling. Without Kane in my life, the world around me faded to gray. I couldn’t go back to my life before and just pretend he didn’t exist. He’d impacted my world in a way I couldn’t undo. I’d given him a piece of my heart, and the only way to feel whole was to be with him. For the first time, I considered breaking from my family. Bitter tears drained down the back of my throat.
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