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How could I care about a stupid cell number when my brother was dead?
It’s also true that my social media was deleted, but only because everyone was posting about the accident and what happened to Miles.
So, I took a long break from it.
Once I felt strong enough to return to school, I transferred to a smaller one. I had so much anxiety and depression to work through. Fewer people hovering around felt safer.
How could I possibly walk the same halls without Miles by my side?
Or Wolf.
By then it had become obvious that he wasn’t going to reach out.
Maybe a fresh start isn’t what I wanted, but my parents convinced me that it’s what I needed.
And I didn’t have the energy to fight them.
Not after everything we’d been through as a family.
Not after encouraging Miles to sneak out of the house so I could spend time with Wolf. He might have been the one driving, but I harbor my own guilt about that night.
“I go and see him all the time,” he whispers, drawing my attention back to him.
Hot tears prick my eyes. Unwilling to let them fall, I blink them back. “I miss him so much. Even now, there are times when I forget he’s gone. Something will happen, and he’s the first person I want to share the news with.”
It’s only when Wolf’s strong fingers tighten around mine that I realize he’s still holding them. “I feel the same way.”
As gut wrenching as this conversation is, there’s also relief to be found in it. Even though the specter of Miles hangs heavily over all our lives, my parents refuse to talk about him.
All the good times we had as a family.
Without the reminder, there’s just the bad.
The part that came after.
The one filled with heartache and heartbreak.
“Nothing will ever be the same,” I whisper.
“No, it won’t. But it doesn’t have to be like this either. We can find happiness again, Fallyn. You deserve that. You can’t live in the shadow of his death forever. What kind of life is that?”
I rip my gaze away and stare out the picture window to the street beyond. Darkness has fallen, and the streetlights now illuminate the shadows.
“It’s difficult when my parents refuse to move forward.” I pause for a moment before adding, “My father is obsessed with destroying your family.”
His normally strong shoulders slump under the heaviness of my words. “I’m sorry. I wish like hell that we’d never gone out that night.”
Even though I don’t want to, I slip my hand free from his, severing the physical connection before the bond can grow any stronger.
I force myself to say in an icy tone, “Nothing you say or do will change the past.”
The misery that floods his expression is like a knife to the heart. “You’re right. There’s no way to bring him back to us.”
Chapter 18
Fallyn
It’s been a couple of days since my conversation with Wolf. His words continue to buzz around at the back of my brain. And nothing makes it stop. Every time I talk with my parents, it’s on the tip of my tongue to bring it up, but I keep biting back the questions.
