CHAPTER 171

- KILLIAN -

I run after her. I’m not supposed to do so in broad daylight but I’m not about to let her experience anything alone again. Not when I’m here. My purpose of being here is to be here for her and only her. I want her to lean on me, and maybe, someday, I’ll be able to open up about myself fully to her then lean on her too. But that’ll be when I’m done with this life of mine.

When nothing of my then past will haunt either of us.

Hazel makes a turn, running into the pathway. There are barely any people here which is a good thing for her. I chase after her.

“Hazel wait, talk to me.” I call.

She turns to look at me without slowing down her pace. “Stop. Go away.” She breaths. I can’t. I won’t. I don’t care what she has to say to me, be it mean, but I won’t leave her alone to sort anything out by herself again. “Stop chasing me, people will see you.”