CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
AXEL
Just because Selena told me that Olive is gone doesn’t mean I have to accept it. I’ll look for her. I will find her. f**k. She can’t be gone.
A rush of emotions washes over me, and I’m so conflicted.
I don’t know if it’s pain, rage, or regret flooding through me. Probably all three. And then it hits me what I’m feeling.
Heartbreak.
My heart hasn’t been broken before, not really. Not until Olive. I felt it c***k the first time when she refused to see me after I left for my first match. I’d just turned eighteen, and I focused my mind on my career.
Then when I saw her that morning on the couch in her apartment and she yelled at me. My heart cracked some more. In Greece when she told me we weren’t right for each other—all those times left cracks. But now I fear
