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Asher returned the conversation, and I ignored two people I loved as they approached the door. Pulling the covers over my head, I fell back asleep as they tried and failed to enter the room.
Alone.
Just me and Vince’s ghost.
I told you you’d be too late, he taunted.
Chapter
Thirty-Five
Your only duty is to your heart.
AVINA CELESTE
BASTIANO ROMANO
Days Too Late: 5
The silence weighed my body down.
I woke to silence.
I ate to silence.
I slept to silence.
And the ghost of Vince’s memory… He laid beside me.
Silent, but there.
At least he was there.
Chapter
Thirty-Six
To love someone is madness, to be loved by someone is a gift, loving someone who knows you is a duty, but being loved by someone whom you love is life.
UNKNOWN
BASTIANO ROMANO
Days Too Late: 6
I dry heaved and rolled off the side of my bed. Getting to my legs, I forced myself to the bathroom sink and splashed water on my face.
The hunger pains had long since faded as my body grew accustomed to the lack of food.
I stared at the mirror.
Not only had my life changed, but I’d changed also. Stubble covered my cheeks, chin, and upper lip.
My cheeks had hollowed out. Not by much, but the difference was visible. My boxer briefs hung low on my waist, and the ridges of my V and abs seemed deeper.
I needed food.
Soon.
