Hamartia

by Scarlett Drake

It takes all of my control not to shout it at him, to rein in the hurt and pain burning a path through my insides, familial and familiar. I’ve no right to blame him. He warned me over and over and over again about all the reasons this couldn’t work. He never said he loved me either. Never said he was ready to do this with me. He never really promised me anything. Still, I would have taken the scraps. Pathetic as that is. Likely Finn’s fault again because he’d left a hole so big it made me that desperate for Jae’s love now. A desperation that really I shouldn’t be afflicted with because my mom had always loved me enough.