Chapter 256

  I’m lying in a heap on the bed, numb from endless sobbing and wracking pain. I don’t know how long I’ve been lying listening to my own blood rush through my head as my heart self-implodes inside my body. I’m nothing but a shell, a quiet empty shell of exhaustion and heartache, rumpled beyond recognition.

  I lashed out, hit at him, and shoved him away with every ounce of strength I possessed, yet still he tried to cling to me.

  My Jake, my body, and soul. Now the destroyer of everything that I was.