Nicholas’s POV
“Did you really think I was going to take it?”
Hazel’s voice cut through the room like a whip. She folded her arms across her chest and stared at me with those fierce brown eyes that always managed to strip me bare. The shattered glass and spilled liquid glittered on the floor between us like broken promises.
I should have known.
I should have known she would pull something like this.
But I still let myself hope that the truth would be enough. That the moment I handed her the vial she would drink it without question. That she would trust me enough to let me save her.
Stupid. So f*****g stupid
I stood there, chest heaving, the weight of every lie I had ever told her pressing down on me like a mountain.
I stared at the shattered glass on the floor, the liquid spreadin
