CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX

NADIA

FIRST DAY BACK

It was my first day in school since I had been discharged from the hospital. A mixture of anticipation and anxiety lingered in my gut. I didn't want to go, but Jack had done a great job convincing me that I needed to finish what I started.

“You don't want them calling you a dropout,” he had said.

He had spent the past two days at my place, making me feel like I was the only one that mattered to him. In those days we became closer, did things together, got more intimate, and even had sex.

I fiddled with the hem of my...