CHAPTER 41
Ariel’s POV
I didn’t look back at Luciana’s room as I stormed away.
I walked back to my room like the past 30 minutes didn’t exist.
My legs moved on their own, carrying me down the hallway and into my room while my hands closed the door behind me with care.
I acted quietly, like any noise would undo everything I had just learned.
Then I leaned my back against the door for a long moment.
Then slid down gently to the floor, pulling my knees to my chest.
The cold from the tiles slipped through my body, and I welcomed it with everything in me.
My sister had made her choice.
Not yesterday.
Not tonight.
But long before now, before I even guessed.
She had chosen to leave. To disappear. To survive in her own way. And she had made that choice without me.
She never bothered
