Past
The sun continued to rise in the east and set each night beautifully in the west. With each passing day, Alex's career goals and Alexandria's ghosts slipped further and further away, evaporating into Charli. Between days with Chelsea and days and nights with Nox, there was nothing I'd ever enjoyed more.
While Chelsea and I spent time together at the pool or in our suite, I admitted my growing feelings for Nox, the ones I didn't want to face. I didn't want to admit the way my heart beat faster when I was around him or the way things that he did or said made me feel special, because with each tick of the clock, our time together waned. If our vacation were an hourglass, the bottom had more sand than the top, and I knew I couldn't turn it over.
“Girl," Chelsea said one morning as we
