Chapter 27

• I haven’t talked to Uriel in three days. I sobbed the whole drive home. The guards ignored me as I did my walk of shame as the sun came up. They hadn’t asked me any questions, and they didn’t report back to my mom. He didn’t write to me, and I didn’t reach out to him. I’d made up my mind not to see him again. I didn’t know he was considering me as a possible partner. That reason alone was enough for me to remove him from my list.
• My life was nothing close to a fairy tale, and the beast turned out to really be a monster. There was no Prince hiding behind the cruel acts Amos performed on me. I hadn’t been expecting a happily ever after, but I’d planned on spending the rest of my life with him. His absence left a gaping hole in my life, and it was hard trying to find my way again without him.
• I wouldn’t say I missed him. I missed the idea of him. The comfort having a partner in my life brought. Knowing that there was someone to call mine, who I’d wake up to in the morning, someone who I’d do this thing called life with, even one who hurt me, brought me a comfort I’d been stripped of.