Chapter 24
Elena He takes a deep breath while saying, “It’s been months and it still feels like it just happened.” Rubbing his back, I kiss his bare, warm shoulder. “You did what you could.” Heat stretches in my chest to the dark, cold depths of my heart having him this close to me. The places of my heart that I have kept cold to put in the effort to move on from him. “I replay that night over and over in my head, thinking about what-if scenarios.” The broken man beside me brings his hands up to his lips as if he’s about to pray. “I shouldn’t have swung at him.” Now, I’m not sure if this is the right time to bring it up, but I can’t seem to shake the thought of why he didn’t just kill Randall when he had the chance. “I don’t understand, though. Why didn’t you just kill Randall while he was on the
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