Taste of the Light (Izotov Bratva #2)

Chapter 40 Eliana

ELIANA

no-show /nō SHō/: noun

I wait.

He does not show.

I stand at the window like I could somehow see him coming if I just stared hard enough into the black, oceanic nothing.

He does not show.

I call and I text and I scream and I cry and still, he does not show.

He promised. He promised.

He does not show.

When midnight tolls, I give up. I crawl into his bed alone, pull his pillow against my chest, and breathe in the fading ghost of wintergreen until my throat aches from holding back sounds I refuse to make.

You bastard.

You absolute bastard.

You swore you’d come home to me.

Still, he does not show.