“It broke me even more than having to let Beverly go three years ago. I saw her ghost everywhere, grandpa. It drove me insane.” I feel vulnerable expressing myself this way to grandfather but I can’t help it.“Did you tell her? Did you tell her how you felt?How you felt when you heard she was dead?”
BEVERLY’S POVKian’s grandfather is finally returning to London today. Watching him step into the car that will take him to the airport, is like watching all of my hopes and hardwork drive far away from me. I am in a terrible mood but I hide it with smiles, determined to see this to the very end ev
Before I can deny his accusations, Kian returns and I just take a step back from his grandfather. “Is everything okay?” Kian asks, looking from me to his grandfather. “I was just wishing him a safe trip back.” I say and then to grandfather, I add, “I hope you stay in good health.” He merely nods
TRAVIS’ POVI have kept my distance from Leslie. I’ve stopped answering her calls at the speed of light, stopped texting her every chance I get, buried myself in work so I don’t even have a second to spare for thoughts of her, and lied about leaving the country for a business trip. I won’t deny how
Fuck, I wasn’t there for Leslie. I was so busy nursing the wounds from seeing her run to Kian for help that I totally neglected her. I should have been there for her. I should have done better. I shouldn’t have let my jealousy get the best of me. I should have told her on the phone that day that I
LESLIE’S POVI can’t tell how long it’s been since I laid down in my bed. I have no knowledge of time and day and I don't even care for those things, I don't even care for anything. I just lay in bed on my side as day bleeds into night and night bleeds back into day. I just lay and stare at the wall
“After you came home that day, I found myself wondering about all of the other times in the past when you must have broken down like that. When you must have needed comforting so badly. Times when you must have wanted someone to hold you and tell you everything would be alright,“I don’t even know i
KIAN’S POV Things are back to normal. Except that I do not exactly know what normal means anymore. Now that grandfather is gone, everything has returned to the way they used to be after Leslie left–dull and lifeless. In her absence, nothing interests me, not even work that has been my solace for