Zariah

"My heart will ache forever to know my first love is my first ruse."

These words. This one fucking sentence killed everything. He couldn't remember it anymore but I could never forget it.

Whatever was between us was dead. In fact, It wasn't alive in the first place.

"Taking my hand? Don't joke around, you would never," I muttered.

He won't take my hand. Never.

I couldn't interpret how delicately he stole a part of my soul and then agonized it until the remains were left.

"What happened?" Father asked when I came down.

"Nothing."

Upholding my demeanor, I didn't show him what I was going through.

"Don't act...