Chapter 41: Decision

~Alyona~

It’s like a void. A never-ending dark hole consumes everything, so you’re left feeling nothing. Empty. Nothing to subside your hollow soul that creeps in the shadows, away from any other human life, because its emptiness is so consuming it cannot bear to pretend that everything is okay.

I didn’t know what to feel when someone took out my beating heart and crushed it under their feet. I didn’t know when I hit the plant pot in the hallway while running away from Alexander.

He came after me when I felt his tight grip on my elbow.

“Listen to me,” he shrilled.

But my ears were deaf, and my mind shut down all my senses.

I was entirely in a state of shock.

“I didn’t know about this,” he said something.

I didn’t know when I swung my hand on his face.

The hallway was empty with the sound of a slap given by me on Alexander’s face.

“Stop.”

He was shocked. “I resigned,” I declared on his face.

I didn’t care whether he wanted a month’s notice. All I cared about was my soul was