Chapter 48: Risking Everything.
Zane~
At my company, I sat in my office, my head in my hands, my thoughts miles away.
I had told myself not to chase after her. That it was for the best. That she was safer this way.
Then why did it feel like someone had ripped my heart from my chest?
I clenched my fists, trying to focus on the endless reports in front of me, but the words blurred together. Numbers, figures, contracts—I didn’t care about any of it. All I could think about was her.
Natalie.
She had walked out of my house last night, and I had let her go. I had stood motionless, while Red growled in agony in the back of my mind. Every instinct in me had screamed to go find her, to pull her back—but I had forced myself to stay put.
She was someone I shouldn’t be seen with. Someone who could destroy the future my father had fought so hard to secure for me. Someone who could strip the Goddess’s blessings from my life just by being near her.
I had convinced myself that letting her go was the right thing to do.
I had never been more wrong.
Because today, as I sat in my office, I felt like I was suffocating. It was like my lungs had forgotten how to work, like my heart had been carved out of my chest and left to bleed.