Contract with Ares

37

Chapter Thirty Seven

In which everything feels new.

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[Page Asvette.]

This feels odd.

I thought that everything would fall back in the way I wanted them to. Now that I am back in my old place, and everything that connects me with Kye were gone—I suddenly feel empty. Like a part of me wanted something it could not have. When I saw myself in the mirror, I saw my hands fiddling on my neck. It's like an impulse.

I treasured the thing because it was important to Kye.

Now, I never really realized how important I saw it.

"Are you doing alright?" Johnny asked, walking out from the kitchen. He has a set of ice cream tubs in his hands, beckoning for me to get them. Like a small child, I did. "I thought this is what you wanted?"

"It is."

"Then why do you look like that?"

I never real