It Never Left

Chapter 273: It Never Left Savannah I died in that moment. Not figuratively. Not poetically. I actually, genuinely, literally felt something inside me collapse so completely that breathing became optional. Roman had forgotten me. My greatest fear—the one I wasn't afraid to say out loud, even to myself—had now crawled out of the dark and wrapped its hands around my throat. Who is she? Those three words echoed in my head like gunshots. Everything we’d been. Everything we’d survived. Every whispered promise, every fight, every argument, every laugh in the middle of the night when sleep wouldn’t come. Every memory came crashing down on me all at once, brutal and merciless. Memories of us. Memories that suddenly belonged to only one of us now. Me. Because Roman didn’t remember. Reese looked down at his hands like he couldn’t bear to witness the damage anymore. River finally caught up with me. The machines kept beeping—steady, cruel, indifferent—like the universe was mocking me fo