(Melissa pov) The car hadn’t even fully stopped before I pushed the door open. “I’m done,” I muttered under my breath as my feet hit the ground, my anger still burning hot and uncontrollable. “Melissa—” I didn’t wait or listen, I walked straight through the gates, my steps fast and sharp, ignoring everything behind me, including him, I could feel his presence, heavy and close, following me like a shadow that refused to disappear, but I didn’t turn around, I didn’t slow down, because if I did, I knew I would explode and right now, I was barely holding it together. I reached my room and slammed the door shut behind me, my chest rising and falling as I tried to breathe through the anger, but it wasn’t leaving, it wasn’t fading, it was growing, twisting tighter inside me. “Unbelievable,”

