By the time I get home, the sky’s already slipping into a dark shade. The Sterling estate looks more haunted than usual in the dark than it does during the day.
The loneliness and silence swallows me when I step into the house. Lena isn’t here. She said she wasn’t going to be here and was going to stay in a hotel instead, but, for just a tiny moment, it had been nice to have her here with me.
I barely have any friends. When I was dating Noah, his mother made it a point to disconnect me from the outside world. She said if I was going to marry her son, she didn’t want to see me socializing with “low-lives”. So I had to cut off the few friends I had just to be with Noah.
I hate to think about all the things I sacrificed just to be with Noah, because if I lose myself to those thoughts, I wo
