TESSA
The unthinkable had happened.
I stayed put on the floor longer than I realized, hot tears pouring down my face endlessly, my breath catching in my throat until I started feeling suffocated and I could barely draw in any air. The cold floor pressed into my skin, the stinging on my knees sharp where I had scraped it against the edge of the stairs earlier. Not none of it hurt as much as what Zane had done… what he had become.
Betrayal.
Never had I thought that Zane would betray me like that, but maybe I could have guessed it. I thought I had known what being betrayed felt like. I had thought I had tasted it before—with Garrett and with my so called family. But this? This was deeper. This cut was where I couldn’t see it and where I couldn’t patch it up even if I tried to.
Zane ha
