Delilah’s Pov
I just stood there. My legs were planted to the floor, but everything inside me was crumbling. I didn’t even know what to think anymore. What did I do to deserve this day?
I knew my stamina was nowhere near Malric’s, and maybe I wasn’t supposed to care… but I did. And when he snapped at me earlier, told me to stop calling his name, it felt like a punch straight to my chest.
I hated it.
I hated that it made me feel like this.
I haven’t cried in two years. Not since that day Caleb rejected me. Nothing, absolutely nothing has ever been able to break me since then. But right now, Malric’s words, his cold tone, the way he looked at me… it was almost the same as that night. Like I was being rejected all over again.
I swallowed hard and forced myself to breathe normally, refus
