Chapter 128
~ Navine ~
I was hurt. So f*****g hurt watching the way Nathaniel flirted with Hailey. The way he touched her hair. The way he looked at her lips. The way he stood so close to her that there was barely any space between them.
It felt deliberate. Performative. Like he knew exactly where I was standing and exactly what this would do to me. Every casual brush of his fingers, every murmured word meant only for her ears, scraped against something raw inside my chest.
As though he wanted to make her believe it was actually him who made love to her at Obscura.
And the worst part was that she didn’t pull away. She didn’t recoil. She smiled—soft, uncertain, but real. That smile had once been mine. Or at least, it should have been.
My heart ached so much more than it ever had. More
