I didn’t know where I was going anymore. My feet just moved, carrying me far away from the pain, but I couldn’t escape it. It was inside me, clawing at my chest, making it hard to breathe, hard to think.
I wiped at my eyes, smearing the tears across my face, but they kept coming. No matter how hard I tried to hold them back, I couldn’t. I was too broken. Too shattered. And as I rounded the corner, I slammed straight into something solid.
“Hey—whoa, slow down!” Blaze’s voice cut through the haze, his hands gripping my arms to steady me. “Why are you... Are you damn crying?”
I tried to turn away, to hide the tears, but he wouldn’t let me. His grip tightened, forcing me to face him. His dark eyes scanned my face, his expression hardening. “Tell me what happened.”
I opened my mouth, but no
