Chapter 98

Declan

I stood there for a long time, staring at the spot she’d been standing—the air still heavy with her scent, faint and familiar, like rain and pine and something that didn’t belong to me anymore.

I told myself to breathe. To move. To not go after her.

But it didn’t matter.

The second she disappeared around the corner, something inside me cracked open.

I turned on my heel and headed for the do