Chapter 80: I Only Need You

The breath in my lungs didn’t return. Not after that casual revelation.

Not after he'd said it. He had dropped the words so carelessly, like tossing crumbs on the table, but they landed inside me like an earthquake.

*He loved me.*

Or at least, he’d said it. Again. For the second time today. And that was the part that was eating me alive. Because he’d said it once before and he'd laughed it off, p