Drowning in Silence    

[EVE]

Days passed in a blur, each one blending into the next until time lost all meaning.

I felt like I was trapped in a limbo of bad dreams—floating somewhere between consciousness and nothingness. The pain should have been unbearable, but instead, there was just . . . emptiness.

I couldn't even cry.

Tears would have meant acknowledging what happened. Tears would have meant accepting that Cole—the man I thought I loved, the man who had looked at me with warmth just weeks ago—was now a stranger. Worse, he had discarded me so effortlessly, as if I had never mattered at all.

A month. That's all it took. One month to make me believe in something, to think for the first time in forever that I wasn't alone. And then, in a blink, it was gone.