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Chapter 267 - 267/Fifteen Days of Hell

Chapter 267:

Julie's POV

I felt hunger gnawing at my empty stomach with painful pinches, so I ate breakfast with a deadened mechanicalness, like a machine programmed for survival. Then, I went in to bathe. Warm water flowed over my back and the curves of my body, but despite its heat, it couldn't warm the frozen chill of my soul. My heart was broken, moaning under the weight of disappointment in the man I once thought would be my sanctuary. My feelings were a toxic mixture: oppression pressing against my throat, regret boiling in my chest, and a cursed longing tearing me in two.

I stepped out of the bathroom and dressed with a lifeless body no spirit left in it. I held a book, trying to cram words into a mind that could barely stop asking lethal questions. I turned on music to drown out the silence that had begun to hum in my ears like bees.

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