All of a sudden he remembered she was there, some days he still just wanted her out, and others… that love was burning in those eyes that resembled something that Bella had been wanting for so goddamn long.

There it was, right in front of her.

She could just not give a fuck.

This last chunk of time had been horrific.

Linus

Cal

Her

In trying to escape depressing ordeal she was stuck in, she had actually made her list of bullshit LONGER and now she was swimming in it.

Bella’s innate ability to suppress this torturous trifecta was her survival mechanism.

It’s too bad that as she conquered each point in the triangle, another one was coming harder, faster and with more wrath and soon she would be drowning in a new odyssey of torment.

Too bad it was the war waging on inside of her that she was fighting. The trifecta of terror that was taking over her life these days, the physical people were mostly behind her.

Or at least lingering on the outer peripheral of her vision. She could definitely feel them there, but could not always see them. It was mostly an inner battle she had to fight with the occasion comment from the outside to reset her progress.

How did it come to this? Bella, in this moment, could not even imagine the path. If she had been in a better mindset, she would’ve been able to.

These last few years had been such a whirlwind.

Bella had been spun around, she had held so tightly to try to keep her feet under her that she had broken a few more strings in the disentanglement of Bella and Linus