ASHLEY'S POV
I didn't know how I made it down to the car.
I don't even remember walking out of Michael’s office. My legs just moved on their own, but my heart had stayed back there…stuck in that suffocating room, watching him stand next to her. Watching the silence between us speak louder than anything he could've said.
Kate. That name alone was enough to get my stomach all knotted up. My hands gripped the wheel so hard that my knuckles hurt. My eyes pricked with tears, and I blinked wildly, struggling to keep them from falling.
I drove for hours. It didn't matter where. I just needed to get out. Away from that building, away from him, away from it all.
The sky was already growing dark, and city lights began to come to life like the stars were taunting me. I pulled over on an unknown
