“Five minutes.” The warder said.
I walked further and my breath literally stopped.
He stood tall and unmoving just staring at me.
For a second, my brain refused to recognize what my eyes were seeing.
Because it didn’t make sense, it couldn’t be real.
Maxton….
My fingers twitched inside the restraints.
My chest tightened so suddenly it hurt.
He walked closer, seeing I was frozen in a spot
Everything inside me collapsed at once.
He was real and alive but he had changed
Not just older. Not just matured but different.
The boy I once knew was gone, replaced by a man who carried something heavier in his eyes. Something life had carved into him.
But no matter how much he had changed… I knew him.
I would always know him.
Memories rushed through my mind before I could stop them.
My
