Ignited ✔️

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-EMERY-

"Welcome to the Seattle-Tacoma international airport, whether you're here to stay or just visiting, Washington welcomes you with open arms"

I still couldn't believe I had just decided to pack a suitcase and move to a completely new city. I didn't even know where the hell I was going, I just knew that I needed to get away.

Flying across the country was the only way to do it where I couldn't be found.

"You okay?" Alex asks as we step off the plane.

He had offered to let me stay at his cousins house, he wanted to make sure I adjusted okay and said he'd stay until I didn't need him anymore.

I force a smile in his direction and nod my head slightly.

He swings an arm over my shoulders and pulls me into his side.

"I know it's hard Emery. You left everything you've ever known behind. I can't imagine what you're going through."

I fight the tears that were struggling to be free and sniffle. "I just didn't expect it to hurt this bad."

I feel like he ripped my heart out of my chest and burned it right in front of me, laughing at how dumb I was.

"Em if it makes you feel any better, I know he really did care about you-"

I cut him off with a scoff.

"He didn't, the whole thing was all a big lie, all of it."

"His father is a vicious and cruel man Emery. He didn't have a choice."

I couldn't believe this.

"How can you be defending him?! He murdered my father and lied to me for months!"

"I'm not defending him, I just know that there's more to the story than you see"

Maybe there was, but I thought that River and I trusted each other, I told him everything. And he couldn't even tell me the truth about a single thing.

He betrayed me and I don't think I'd ever be able to forgive him, even if I did love him.

"I'm sorry Em, I just thought you should know" Alex mumbles as we exit the airport.

"I appreciate it, but it doesn't change anything."

Alex hails a taxi down and we slide in before he gives the driver the address to his cousins place. I knew it wasn't far, but I didn't want to think. All that filled my mind now was River, and I hated it.

I only wondered if he was thinking of me as much as I was thinking of him. And my mind was racing with scenarios but the main one, was that he didn't care, and he was perfectly happy knowing he ruined my life.

Im pulled out of my nightmare as we pull up to a brick building looming over us. The revolving doors in the front were constantly spitting people out. I watched in amusement as business men came out with their phone pasted to their ears, a mom bustling out followed by her two sons dressed to perfection.

I didn't fit in here.

This place was high end. I was hoping I could find a place to feel like I belong.

"If you want to head on up I'll grab the bags." Alex says to me as he pops the trunk of the taxi.

I nod my head and sling my cross body bag over my shoulder.

"Number 1200. Take the elevator up to the top floor and it's the door at the end of the hallway"

I don't give a verbal response and instead just follow his instructions. I step into the revolving door and am spit out into a modern upscale lobby.