Chapter 59
Sunday mornings were supposed to be calm and soft or maybe a little lazy. The kind where the world felt quiet enough for me to hear my own heartbeat but this morning wasn’t any of that. It wasn’t even close.
I woke with that hollow ache in my chest, the kind that doesn’t really fade no matter how many times you tell yourself you’re fine. I had been trying to convince myself for days that Nathan’s absence was just… space. That maybe he needed it. That maybe I needed it. But who was I fooling? Every second without him felt like my heart had been left in some cold, airless room.
That’s how I found myself calling a cab and giving Nathan’s address to him. I was going to his house without any warning or texting to see if it was okay. I didn’t need his permission because I had the
