Lilith’s Pov

I stood there.

Mind blank.

Did I just hear what I think I heard?

“Wait… what?” My voice cracked, the words barely leaving my throat. “You guys… didn’t break up?”

Zoey’s eyes narrowed, hurt radiating from her like fire licking at everything soft.

“I don’t know if this is a joke to you or some kind of sick drama,” she said, voice trembling, “but Nolan and I never broke up. We were having issues, yes. He stopped talking to me. Ghosted me. I thought maybe it was work stress. I still don’t know what I did wrong. But now I know why.”

She took a step closer to...