Chapter 210
~ Navine ~
I drove back to my apartment with my hands gripping the steering wheel so hard my knuckles had gone white, the tendons in my wrists aching from the strain. I barely noticed the traffic lights or the turns I took. Muscle memory drove the car while my mind burned somewhere else entirely.
Rage pulsed through me with every heartbeat. Hot, bitter, self-directed rage that crawled under my skin and sat there, corrosive and relentless. It blurred my focus and tightened my jaw until my teeth hurt from clenching.
I hated myself. Hated every stupid, unnecessarily reserved choice I'd made that had led to this exact moment, every pause where I should have spoken, every silence where truth should have been. Each decision replayed like evidence in a trial where I was both defen
