Chapter 055
Emilia's POV
My knees felt cold on the cold floor.
It was cooler than it ought to have been. As if the warmth had left this place long before Lena broke.
She didn't yell. She didn't snap as I had assumed she would. She simply broke.
Her eyes were glassy, and her face crumpled, as if something inside her had broken too loudly for her to hear anything else. I could feel the weight of her despair in the air as her hands trembled, but not from anger.
And I wasn't scared of what she would do to me for the first time since it all started.
I was afraid of what she would do to herself.
Her voice was raw and hollow as she whispered, "I gave everything to him."
My mouth opened, but nothing came out.
Just quiet. Just take a breath. Shallow. Delicate.
"And he still picked you."
