Chapter 23: Burnt Bridges

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🌺Samyrah's POV🌺

Standing outside Sovereign Centre awaiting my in drive, my phone notifies me of a new message

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Standing outside Sovereign Centre awaiting my in drive, my phone notifies me of a new message. Clicking on my screen; 'Other Half💕'  pops up on top of my notifications.

It's been precisely 14 days since we last spoke and each day was like standing at the edge of a cliff knowing you are afraid of heights.

Unlocking my phone, I open her message scrolling seeing a lengthy paragraph.

'Only God knows how much I love this girl but I swear I am not reading this.'

Sending her a crying emoji she immediately responds:

Other half💕: Please read 🥹

Sighing, I click off the phone placing it back in the safe heaven of my purse.

'I will attend to that when I get home.' 

Patiently continuing my wait, I glance around noticing a car approaching me. Stopping just before me, my heart begins to race in my chest and I sniffle a breath.

Vague flashbacks of what happened the last time I entered a private vehicle fights to resurface. Cold sweat pick at skin as I try to drown out the memory I fought so hard to forget.

The car window rolls down and my hands seemingly tighten around my bag not knowing who or what to expect.

"Hey pretty" the male voice strikes and I breathe a sigh of relief calming myself.

'It's just him'

"What do you want?" I loosening my grip on the bag peering in car at his hazel eyes. I always found them so attractive especially the way it compliments his skin. I just didn't see him the way I saw his brother. Looking over his car I realize it's the same one he always uses.

'How did I not notice this?'

Ever since the day of the accident, sleeping became next to impossible for me, I couldn't enter a car without negative thoughts filling my mind and everything remind me of that day so much so I lost count of the many times I relived that one moment.

"Nothing," his eyes roam my attire before meeting back my gaze. "What are you doing out here this time of the night?"

"None of your business" I answer. His mouth seals in a hard line, nodding he strokes his beard his eyes still on me. "Solo movie date night" I decide to respond earning a nod from him.

"Always enjoying your self no matter what huh?" Switching off the car, he steps out" I always admire that about you." he adds closing the door and leaning against it.

If only he knew the last time I actually felt any bit of happiness, hell even I can't recall.

These days I just feel lost in my own world, like nothing is making sense. Everything seems as if I am walking on eggshells and it's frustrating. I am emotionally tired of trying to feel ok again. I need a break from my own mind to feel something again and I thought tonight would give me that but it didn't.

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