Chapter 58

• Erica’s POV:
• I stood by the window, watching the sunrise slowly chase away the darkness. The irony wasn’t lost on me—such a beautiful morning on what felt like the hardest day of my life. Thirty days. I had been counting them down from the moment this twisted arrangement started, but now that the final day was here, I didn’t know what to do.
• I glanced back at the bed where Kyle would always lay with me. For weeks, I had told myself that this was temporary. He was temporary. I was supposed to hate him. He had taken everything from me—my freedom, my choices, my dignity. But somehow, along the way, hate had turned into something I didn’t recognize, something I wasn’t ready for.