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Kayla's POV

It felt like I had no more tears left to cry. A part of me went numb and the only senses working were the ones pushing my left foot, then right foot forward repeatedly.

It felt like a cruel joke as I wandered aimlessly, I had fought for him, defended him when no one else did. And this was how he repaid me?

With Lily? That snake!

My vision spun, the world around me blurring, as if it didn’t want me to see just how shattered everything had become. I pressed my palm to my chest, as if I could somehow stop the ache, stop the hollow feeling that had taken root deep inside me. But it didn’t stop. It only grew stronger, tightening like a vice around my heart.

“I have no one,” I whispered into the air, my voice barely audible, my throat raw from crying. My words were swallowed by the night, unheard by anyone. It was just me now, me and this suffocating loneliness.

“I have nowhere” My step family? That was out of the question. I couldn’t go back there, not with Lily’s threats still