MELISSA‘S POV

I couldn’t take this anymore. I was losing my mind, and every second felt like I was walking on broken glass. Sitting around and hoping things would fix themselves was no longer an option. I needed to up my game. I couldn’t just put all my eggs in one basket with Marco because, honestly, he wasn’t giving me what I needed right now. He tried, I know he did, but every update from him left me more frustrated and hopeless.

And I couldn’t afford to be hopeless. Not ...