[Isolde]
The next few weeks went by in an endless, almost deplorable manner. Dreadful and terribly sad days that mixed together into one long stretch of misery.
I tried to numb myself from thinking back to what I'd seen in the forest. After all, Phoebe and Nikolai were engaged to be married. I had no particular right to him. No claim or standing to feel betrayed.
But Nikolai's attitude had changed entirely.
Sure, maybe I'd been avoiding him before that weekend everything went to hell. But rather than simply avoiding me in return, he made it devastatingly clear that he no longer wanted any communication with me. The one time I'd managed to catch him alone in the corridor, he'd looked straight through me like I was a ghost. Like I didn't exist.
I couldn't understand it.
Was he acting o
