Kabanata 32
Gavin’s POV “Change doesn’t always start with flowers or fireworks. Sometimes, it begins with silence — and the courage to finally mean something.” I returned the journal. I didn’t leave a note. Didn’t ask to see her. I just slipped it through the gate of her house, wrapped carefully in a brown paper bag, with nothing but her name written on it. Because this wasn’t the time for grand gestures. Not yet. Not when she had already chosen herself — finally — after years of choosing me. I had no right to ask her to look back. Not until I could prove I was no longer the boy who took her love and gave nothing in return. So I started small. I quit the freelance gig that kept pulling me into the same circles Cassandra moved in. It was toxic — not because of her, but because I kept choos
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