The moment she was gone, something inside me shattered. I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t think. After everything we had been through together — the love, the fights, the promises — she was actually leaving me for that bastard.
Tears blurred my vision and spilled down my face. The elevator doors opened again, and thankfully, it was empty. I stepped inside, slid down the wall, and sat on the cold floor. Harsh sobs tore out of me like a child’s, echoing in the small metal box as it began to ascend. I had always known this day might come, but I never imagined it would feel like this — like my entire world was collapsing around me.
It felt like I was dying inside. Because now I understood the worst part: Payton didn’t just care about Teddy. She loved him. She had already fallen completely out o
