REED
Goodbye.
Not goodnight, not I need space or we'll talk tomorrow or any of the hundred things people say when they mean this isn't over. Just goodbye. Clean and complete and final as a door swinging shut.
My vision went strange at the edges. His hand closed around the doorknob and something inside me snapped clean in half.
I don't remember deciding to move. I was just moving, crossing the room in two strides, and my palm hit the door so hard the frame cracked and the bang of it tore through the room like a gunshot.
Asher flinched and I grabbed his shoulder and spun him and his back hit the wall hard enough to drive the breath out of him and then I was in his face and there was nowhere left for either of us to go.
My chest was heaving and my hands were shaking against the wall on either side of him.
