The wind was colder, It sliced through the trees like knives and howled around the corners of the cabin as if mourning something unspeakable.
By the time Luca and I returned, the fragile stillness of earlier was gone. The air was tense, too full, and too heavy.
I felt like I couldn’t breathe, like everything was pressing down on my chest.
And then it broke.
I collapsed to the floor the moment the door shut behind us.
My knees buckled, and I let out a sound that wasn’t quite a scream and wasn’t quite a sob......a sound from somewhere deep, a place so hollow I didn’t know it existed until now.
My hands clawed at the wooden floorboards as I cried, hot and hard.
I wept like the girl I used to be had died.
"Caitlyn!"
Luca rushed to me, but I didn’t let him touch me. Not yet. I neede
