Chapter 36:
Ivy’s POV
The rain hadn’t stopped all evening. It came streaking down my window in thin, endless lines, like the hpuse was shedding tears. I’d been staring at the same paragraph on my laptop for the better part of an hour, trying to finish the school essay they had given me last week, but my thoughts kept circling back to him.
Damian Blackthorn. He had slept with me and then vanished, leaving a ache in my chest that refused to settle, no matter how much I drank ice water.
Days had passed without a message, without a knock, without a sign. I had told myself I didn’t care, that it was just another bad decision but this time with a dangerously beautiful man. And even he could be forgotten with time.
I'd tried to pretend that I didn’t care that he still hadn’t called. I didn't
