Harper stopped walking only when the campus lights were a faint glow behind her. Her chest rose and fell quickly, as though she had been running, but it wasn't her legs that were tired — it was her heart.
She pressed her back against a lamppost, shutting her eyes for a moment. The sting of Logan's words replayed over and over, like a cruel echo she couldn't escape. We weren't real anyway. The second he said it, something inside her cracked. And she had held it in — she had forced herself to stay strong, to walk away without giving him the satisfaction of seeing her break. But now, with no one watching, the tears spilled freely.
