Fuel the Fire

POV: Valerie

My gaze locked rigidly onto the empty, pitch-black rural highway. The heavy silence in the cabin wrapped around us, thick and suffocating after his last words. My exhausted mind chewed on the terrifying reality of who I was rapidly becoming. I wasn't just a rejected, broken mate crying over lost bonds anymore. I was molding myself into a weapon forged in betrayal. The quiet hum of th