The Silent Aftermath
Alec sat in his study, the chair creaking beneath him as he stared into the empty space. His thoughts were a whirlwind, his mind unable to rest. The house was silent. Too silent. The same silence that had once comforted him now gnawed at his insides like a wild animal hungry for something it couldn’t find.
The moments of the past few days felt like they were pressing in on him—moments when he’d felt the walls closing in, moments when he’d watched her, seen the distance growing between them, but refused to acknowledge it. Selena had been slipping away for a long time, and he had been too blinded by his own desire, by his own need to control, to see it. Now, she was gone.
She had left.
It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. He hadn’t thought it would end this way. S
