Chapter 46 : In the end

MAXINE. The revelation hit me like a kick in the chest. I find myself breathless as I stare at Ajax, my hand still on my chest. He continues to look at me as though waiting for something, but when I just stay frozen like that, he starts to move away. It gives me a little relief, him trying to put some space between us like that. With everything he said, I feel like the fitting room got stuffier than it already is. His words are still playing in my mind and I can’t really process them. I don’t really want to, because they make too much sense. He wants me. He liked me from the moment he saw me. And maybe it’s because of what happened after, but I never really considered thinking about him that way. But now that I look back at the night with that in mind, I can completely see what he meant. Our connection that night was good, no matter how quickly it turned out to be bad. If it weren’t for the fact that I was Human, I think we really would have hit it off. But what happened is what h