Chapter 130: The Saddest Word

Ava's POV

The world seemed to have stopped in its turn as Miguel pushed me and I fell into Perez's arms —who held me up, keeping me from falling to my knees.

Lightweight, destroyed, broken —my body felt like a broken shell unable to hold anything.

I was falling apart, I was crumbling from within, and all the joys of the world were beyond reach.

My heart was in my legs, in my arms, in my bones, everywhere but my chest and it was heavy. My body was heavy and impossible to lift. It was almost like I was carrying the weight of the world on my shoulder.

And perhaps I was.

It had been hours since Perez brought me from the ranch but I didn't feel like myself. How could I?

With Mary-Grace being missing and all, It felt like every inch of my soul was damaged and set loose to the wind.

I was lost, and Irreparable with no one to blame for everything that had gone wrong than myself.

Perez dragged me out of the mansion, and I crumbled before him, refusing to move another inch.

I couldn't le