Chapter 38
lukas
I heard the door open and click shut.
I couldn’t breathe.
I gasped through the pain rampaging in my chest. My hand rubbed at the ache, as if that would lessen the hurt. I felt like I was dying. The air felt at the top of the mountain thin and somehow too hot—too thick to breathe properly.
I scooted back on the bed and ignored the way my phone screen lit up on the nightstand.
I ignored Petyr’s face as it flashed on the screen with his incoming call.
I’d been ignoring him all day, something I would undoubtedly pay for later.
But for right now, I curled up on my bed and let the tears fall.
At some point, Zara knocked and came into the room through the connecting door to hers.
The soft click of her door opening had me looking up.
I glanced at her through watery eyes, and she looked as upset as I was.
I reached behind me and opened the blankets to her and she took the invitation.
Even though she was younger and it was my job to take care of her, I let my baby sister comfort me as the pain unrelentingly eviscerated my chest.
Ski Boiz
Tyler
Dude, what the hell happened?
Chase
Ellory is yelling at me. Bro?
Callum
Iz is losing her mind too. Josh and I don’t know what to tell her.
Micha
If he wants to tell us, he will.
Dude, no pressure.
Chase
No, all the pressure. Spill.
The Ski Boiz stick together.
Tyler
Chase, shut up.
Lukas
It’s over.
Joshua
What do you mean?
Lukas left the conversation.
Chase
fuck that shit.
Chase added Lukas to the conversation.
Chase
Listen here asshole, you don’t get to leave because you’re hurting.
Chase
If you don’t want to talk now, that’s fine. But you don’t get to shut us out indefinitely.
I can play this game all day.
Micha
ooooh, it’s been a long time since Mom and Dad fought.
Lukas