EllaEVEN THOUGH MY injuries are healing, the heaviness in my heart just seems to worsen with each passing minute.
Alek hasn’t spoken to me. Not that I blame him. We’re broken, and I don’t know if we can fix it. But I meant what I said; even though I love Alek, I’ll always associate this sorrow inside me with him. His world has taken so much from me that I don’t even know who I am anymore.
I don’t blame him, though. I blame myself because every choice was mine to make. Alek never asked me to do any of this. It was all me. If I had the chance to start over, I don’t know what I’d choose.
My heart is broken for so many reasons, and this is why I’ve built up my walls. I don’t want to tell Alek what happened because I don’t want pity. It’ll kill me to have him look at me any differently, to h
