Chapter 12 : Broken

Blood roared in my ears. My jaw clamped down on my tongue so hard I could taste blood. My chest pounded harder and harder with every step as I climbed the stairs. The elevator was out, like usual.

My bag felt heavy, smacking against my side.

My hair whipped behind me, a brewing storm raging in the sky above, but even the thunder seemed to pale in comparison to how I felt inside.

Everything I had worked so hard for, disintegrating. Destroyed. Like nothing I did ever mattered. It was all temperamental. Nothing was forever. Except for time.

You could never get time back.

The time I wasted trying to figure out what I did wrong. How to fix what was never broken to begin with, just a shitty relationship.

When I made it up to my apartment, the door was open, Nova signing something on the mover's tablet. "You got the new address?" she asked, handing the tablet back.

She hadn't seen me yet, dripping and soaked to the bone.

"All set, ma'am. We'll head there right away," the ma