Chapter 77

*BRIANNE’S POV*

The air was thick with tension as I stood between them, my body trembling from the chaos that had just unfolded. Jordyn and Marcus both stood frozen, staring at me as if they had just realized the gravity of what they’d done. The raw emotion in their eyes was almost unbearable, a mixture of anger, guilt, and something I couldn’t quite place. But I didn’t care. I couldn’t care. Not after everything.

“I can’t do this,” I repeated, my voice barely above a whisper. The weight of those words hit me as they left my lips, and it felt like something inside me was breaking.

I turned my back on both of them, my head spinning as I tried to make sense of the mess I had somehow found myself in. I took a few steps away, feeling their gazes still heavy on me, but neither of them said a word. The silence between us was suffocating, and I could feel the emotions clawing at me, trying to tear me apart.

How did it come to this? I wondered as I wrapped my hand around myself, trying to hol