Red Card to Your Heart: You Don't Deserve My Love Extra Time novel Chapter 35

When Salvatore died, I started laughing. The sound came out sharp and wild, cutting through the silence like broken glass.

I'd done it.

Daniel was avenged.

Then, without warning, the laughter turned to tears.

Christ, I was crying. No idea why. The tears just came—hot and messy, running down my cheeks while my body shook. Somewhere deep down, I knew the truth: Salvatore was the only person who'd ever really seen me. Loved me. In his fucked-up, violent way, he'd been mine completely.

And now he was gone.

The emotions hit me like a truck. Triumph. Loss. They twisted together until I couldn't tell them apart. My body, which had been a weapon for so long, just... gave up. I collapsed, drowning in an exhaustion so deep it felt like dying.

In my dreams, I was back in that alley where everything started with Daniel. Same dirty corner, same desperate girl. I was thinking about how to disappear—how to die without anyone noticing.

Then he was there. Daniel. Smoking, looking like some guardian angel. He reached out, two fingers catching the corners of my mouth, pulling them up into a smile.

"And you will learn to love me back."

I wanted to scream.

To fight. To run.

Instead, I smiled.