The heartbreak, you expect. The tears and the unread texts are just byproducts. But none of those things can be prepared for. The absolute heart wrenching pain every time you see their face. The way you feel like screaming when you’re left alone with nobody to comfort you.

Evony tried to hold back the tears as Alisa boarded the train without a single look back. At that moment, she hated herself....

It’s been 12 hours and 35 minutes since my brother went missing. It was snowing and dark, the moon barely a sliver in the sky. His footsteps faded out hours ago, but I couldn’t just stop looking.

I should have listened to him. He told me he felt like he was being watched, but I thought he was paranoid. Why didn’t I listen? James had always been… strange. Did I snap?

Whatever the reason, I needed...

He smiled - more of a smirk than anything - at me from across the bar. I gave an awkward wave, thinking about how his tattered shirt made him look like he had just crawled out of a dumpster. He took that as an invitation to walk over, a glass of a deep, red liquid sloshing over the rim clutched in his right hand.

“Well, hello there, handsome.” He set his glass down next to me, scooting the bar s...