Jacob
I gazed into the whiskey in my glass, mindlessly swirling it around. The brown liquid caught the dim bar lights, casting fractured reflections like broken promises.
The chilly metal of the glass did absolutely nothing to ease the pain gnawing at me, a relentless beast chewing through my resolve.
I loathed how much I thought about him…how even now, after everything, my body still thrummed with the memory of his touch.
How could I shake the spell he had me under? No matter how hard I tried, it seemed impossible.
This dive bar was nothing special… just a shadowy spot with a wall of booze bottles, their labels worn from years of neglect.
The air smelled of stale beer and regret, the kind of place where people came to disappear.
Still, it was where I first fell for Nathan an
