KATRINA'S POV
If there’s a bigger word than jealousy, I can’t find it. Whatever I’m feeling right now makes jealousy seem like a soft, harmless thing. This… this is something uglier, deeper, like acid slowly eating through my chest.
Xavier—my Xavier—the man I’ve loved with every fiber of my being, the man whose laugh could light up my entire world, now doesn’t even want to see me near him. He prefers Melissa. My sister.
I don’t even know how to process that thought.
Melissa, who used to keep to herself, who never cared much about Xavier—at least not in the way I did. And now, he asks for her. Constantly. The same man who once couldn’t go a day without calling me now turns his face away when I enter his hospital room. It feels like being erased from his life, little by little, and I don
