COLIN’S POV
It doesn’t hit all at once, it sinks in slowly, somewhere I can’t reach, and the silence presses in heavier with it.
I don’t respond right away, not because I don’t want to, but because I don’t know how to, and that sits worse than anything else, settling deeper than I expect.
I swallow, my gaze still on her. “So that’s it?” I ask, my voice quieter than I expect, like pushing harder won’t get me anything I don’t already know.
She doesn’t hesitate.
“I meant it.”
There’s no softness or hesitation, just that, and yeah… I must have really been a piece of s**t.
A tight pull settles in my chest, slow and uncomfortable, like something I should’ve understood a long time ago finally catching up to me.
I nod slightly, more to myself than to her, because arguing with that won’t ch
