Chapter 79

RONAN

It had been over a week since I brought her back home.

A week of walking on glass, of watching the woman I loved flinch at shadows, startle at the smallest creak of the floorboards, pull into herself at the slam of a cupboard door.

It pinched me every single time.

It felt like someone was slowly, brutally squeezing my heart, crushing it in their palm, every time her breath hitched in fe