Chapter 72

• Noah's POV:
• The world hadn’t stopped when she left. But something inside me had. Something quiet and deep and too familiar now, like a permanent echo of the day she looked me in the eyes and told me she never loved me.
• It was 5:13 a.m. The same time I had been waking up every morning since Stacey shattered my heart. It wasn’t by alarm anymore, my body just knew. Like it had decided if my heart was going to ache, it might as well ache while I chased something worth it.