Cindy
The door slammed shut behind me with a finality that echoed down the dim corridor like a judge’s gavel sealing my fate.
Kendrick’s words still rang in my ears.
“If you come back here again… you won’t like what happens next.”
My heels clicked against the stone floor, the sound jarring and sharp. I didn’t care who heard. Let them all know I was furious. Let them whisper and stare. I wasn’t hiding anymore.
How dare he look at me like that? Like I was filth. Like I was some desperate, deranged ex clinging to a fantasy. We had loved each other once. I had been everything to him. I had known his body, his secrets, the soft places behind the armor he wore for the world. And now… now he couldn’t even look at me without disgust twisting his face?
I stormed into the guest quarters they h
