It Never Left

***Hazel***

I died in that moment.

Not figuratively. Not poetically. I actually, genuinely, literally felt something inside me collapse so completely that breathing became optional.

Victor had forgotten me.

My greatest fear—the one I wasn't afraid to say out loud, even to myself—had now crawled out of the dark and wrapped its hands around my throat.

Who is she? Those three words echoed in my head