Draven,
The chest pain had increased more than I ever thought it would. For the past five years, I hadn't slept for more than three hours at a time. Recently, I managed to fall asleep the day I met Rosé. I hated her for destroying her life, but whenever I saw her, my body felt lighter. It gave me a fleeting hope that I might live a few more years.
“Draven!”
My mother’s voice snapped me out of my thoughts, and my hand instinctively moved away from my chest. I used to love my family, willing to give them my world. But after that incident, resentment replaced the love I once felt. If they hadn’t meddled in my personal life, I could have lived in blissful ignorance.
“Draven! Have you been drinking? What the hell! I told you to stop drinking!” Her voice was piercing, stabbing at my ea
