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CHAPTER8
Left Behind
Nyla
Two weeks later…
“One, two,” I hiss at the punching bag in front of me. “One, two.”
The sound of the force of my punches echo through the basement. I blink back the tears I refuse to allow to fall. They left me. Everyone left me.
As if I have no value to them and I don’t matter, they left me behind. I’ve been left to figure it out all on my own. I thought breaking Matt’s arm would show Gio I needed him, but that didn’t work.
I’m still here alone. It’s been almost six months and it’s getting harder to breathe. Getting kicked out of school may not have been the best idea. At least, when I had school, I got to leave this house.
However, I was drowning there without Gio and Jace. If one more person would have asked me about them, I was going to lose the last of my mind I have left.
“One, two.”
“I hope it’s not my face you’re seeing.”
I freeze and gasp. Tears fill my eyes and I turn toward the sound of a voice I’ve needed to hear so bad.
“Jace,” I breathe as I run into his arms.
He lifts me off my feet as he holds me tightly. I bury my face in his neck as I try to pull my gloves off. He smells so good and comforting.
He places me back on my feet and I look around him for Gio. Disappointment hits hard. I wrap my middle with my gloves clenched tightly in my hands.
“He couldn’t return yet,” Jace says knowingly. “He sent me.”
“Oh…but…but… why won’t he talk to me?”
Jace tugs me back into him and kisses my forehead. “Everything is changing. He’s becoming someone else. We have to let him do that.”
“But doesn’t he see that I need him?”
“Yes, he does. That’s why I’m here. He wants me to take care of you.”
I pout. “But I need him.”
He scoffs. “I’m not going to take offense to that. For now, you’re stuck with me.”
“Sorry. You know what I mean.”
“What I know is that he wants to keep you out of this for as long as he can. What’s up with the soldiers?”
“He’s going to need them.”
“Yeah, well, he wants to talk to you about that.”
I take a sharp inhale. My heart pulses at the thought of a chance to talk to Gio. I just want to hear his voice. I miss him so much.
“When?” I ask hopefully.
“Look at you two. Scheming already,” Gwen says as she walks into the room.
