JADE's POV
Silence.
It has always been our biggest enemy, hasn’t it? If we had just spoken, if we had just said what needed to be said, we wouldn’t have hurt this much.
In the past, I could have asked him why he kissed Lucia. I could have listened to him, given him a chance to explain. Instead, I chose to run, to let my own doubts consume me. I needed a reason to push him away, to confirm what I had always feared deep down—that I wasn’t worthy of being loved, that no one would choose me.
The way Silas had loved me, so fiercely, so completely, had always terrified me. How could he see something in me that I couldn’t see in myself? How could he be so sure about me when I had spent my whole life questioning my own worth?
So when I saw him with Lucia, the pain was almost a relief. See? My
