Chapter 94

• Aria.
• I barely made it to my room before the weight of it all crushed me. The second the door closed, I dropped to the floor, the sobs ripping out of me like I had been holding them in for years. My chest hurt, my throat burned, but I couldn’t stop. It was like every piece of me had broken at once.
• Seeing him out there with Serena, smiling, standing tall while the world cheered for him… and me? I was nothing but a shadow at the edge of the field. A nobody. He hadn’t even hesitated. He hadn’t looked like someone torn between two choices. He looked like he had already made his choice, and it wasn’t me.