"He said he’d come back for me, but how do you wait for someone who already shattered you?"
Arielle – POV
His message still sat on my screen:
“I’ll come back for you. I swear it. – X”
My finger hovered over it.
Delete. Archive. Screenshot.
I did nothing.
I just stared.
A part of me wanted to text back.
To tell him I believed him.
That I missed him.
That I needed him.
But the other part of me — the louder, colder, wounded part — stayed silent.
Because if Xavier was leaving, then maybe I had to learn how to be strong without him.
Xavier – POV
I stood at the edge of the pool behind our estate, shirtless, drunk on emotions, fists clenched.
I hadn’t told her the worst part.
I wasn’t just transferring schools…
I was being sent out of the country.
My father’s punishment for dis
