JASMINE
It burns.
I scoff at myself bitterly. At some point while walking up the stairs, I even chastise my emotions for going astray. How crazy I was to fall for a subtle show of emotion! How gullible and weak the walls I have built around my heart are!
Alec broke it down completely while he had been uttering all those hurtful things and then delivered the final daggers into my weakened heart, drawing out a different kind of pain I have never felt.
.
I can’t believe that even for a second, I thought there are emotions beneath that cold heart of his. I push the door to my bedroom open, slamming my back against it. I allow my body slide down, my heart aching from the blisters of his harsh words and my butt hits the soft carpets. I sit, entwined in webs of sadness that I had foolishly
