Delilah's Pov

I just stood there. My legs were planted to the floor, but everything inside me was crumbling. I didn't even know what to think anymore. What did I do to deserve this day?

I knew my stamina was nowhere near Malric's, and maybe I wasn't supposed to care... but I did. And when he snapped at me earlier, told me to stop calling his name, it felt like a punch straight to my chest.

I hated it.

I hated that it made me feel like this.

I haven't cried in two years. Not since that day Caleb rejected me. Nothing, absolutely nothing has ever been able to break...