TESSA
What would I do now? I had no family. No friends. And no love. It was just… me. I was basically alone.
It was echoing in my head as if saying that I was alone enough times would make it feel less true. But it didn’t. The silence that filled the tiny apartment that I had rented was thick and it pressed down on me like a heavy blanket I couldn’t push off.
But I wasn’t broke. Thank God for that.
And if I didn’t have to worry about my mother’s company back… the company I had fought and bled for, I would have packed a bag, traveled into another city, and started all over. Maybe I would have dyed my hair, changed my name and picked a country where no one knew me and where Zane’s claws or shadows couldn’t follow me to.
But I couldn’t do that. I didn’t take the company back from my
