24
NORA
August still loved me.
Ice snapped under my feet, dragging me beneath a freezing pond. I felt chilled to the bone at those words.
All that work I’d done to get over him. All that time I’d wanted nothing more than to not feel like this anymore. Everything I’d been through because of him. And now—now—he claimed to still love me?
“And…how do you feel about that?” West asked carefully.
So carefully. Too carefully.
I wanted to reassure him. I wanted to tell him that I felt nothing about it. But it would be a lie. I’d thought I’d moved on completely, but first love stuck with you. I knew what August and I had was never ever going to be the same. How could I forgive him for what he’d done? Saying he was in love with me didn’t flip a switch.
I shook my head and looked away. “I don’
