The door clicked shut slowly, cutting Adrian's hesitant, words-on-the-tip-of-his-tongue expression out of sight.
The weightless lurch of the descending elevator felt exactly like the free fall my heart had been stuck in for three whole months.
Only this time, did I finally hit rock bottom.
I didn't look back.
No sooner had I stepped through the office building's revolving door than my phone buzzed in my pocket.
I swiped to decline the call with a blank face, then dragged that name straight into the block list.
Eight years of my youth, all that fiery, all-consuming love? I tossed it all right in the trash along with the cardboard box of my old work stuff.
I logged out of every social media app and crashed at home, sleeping around the clock for days on end.
One morning, a week later,
