CHAPTER 43
NOTHING LEFT
BETTY'S POV
I woke up, but I didn't feel like I had survived.
My eyes opened slowly, and for a while I stared at the ceiling without understanding where I was or why I was awake. My body hurt in places I couldn't immediately name, my throat felt dry, and every breath pulled at the injuries along my side, but none of that mattered as much as the thought that came back when my mind finally caught up with me.
I was still here.
I had wanted to die.
I remembered saying it to the Moon Goddess, remembered the way the words had left me without tears because I had cried until there was nothing left inside me.
I want to die.
But I was still breathing.
The thought didn't make me grateful. It made me tired, so tired that even the idea of opening my eyes again felt lik
