Chapter 40
Gone
(Axel’s POV)
I didn’t know what I was doing.
I’d told myself I was done with her. That I hated her. That I never wanted to see her again.
But I still found myself walking into the hospital where she worked.
Months.
It had been Months.
Exactly, eight weeks of silence. Of replaying every moment, every word. Of drinking too much and sleeping too little. Of pretending I didn’t care when I hadn’t stopped caring since the day she shut the door on me.
I told Chase I was over it.
I wasn’t.
I needed answers. Real ones. Not guesses, not assumptions. I needed to hear it from her lips, even if it shattered me all over again.
So here I was, in the sterile white corridors of the hospital, ignoring the nurses who looked up as I passed, heading straight for her office. I reme
