Chapter Seventeen

SILENCE.

He couldn’t bear in mind the final time he had heard it. He was sure he should’ve heard it someday earlier than his mom’s dying, and life was nonetheless regular. However afterward?

The buzzing had by no means actually stopped.

Even when he had been risking his neck for the craziest stunts, these issues had solely been ok to muffle its sound. Simply sufficient to maintain him from dropping his thoughts. Nevertheless it had all the time been there. Buzzing just like the fucking satan, buzzing prefer it was simply ready for him to surrender and observe in his mom’s footsteps.

You’re identical to your mom. A lunatic!

He had thought he would all the time have it with him, like an affliction that had no remedy.

However he was fallacious.

As a result of after listening to Poppy’s phrases, every part was immediately silent.

So rattling fucking silent.

And he couldn’t perceive it.

Similar to he couldn’t perceive her.

Why, dammit?

Why was she taking a look at him like he was the one who had nearly died?

“Can’t you see, Valerian?” Poppy requested him brokenly. “You’re the one who’s hurting now. Not me. You’ve been bleeding, Valerian. Bleeding. Ever since that day you misplaced your mom, your coronary heart hasn’t stopped bleeding, and I simply…I simply need you to cease hurting. So please—” Poppy’s voice caught as tears began operating down her cheeks. “Please inform me what I can do. Please.”

And identical to that, he realized she had already completed it.

He was on his toes straight away, and his lovely Poppy in his arms the following. Her legs locked round his waist, and his chest squeezed on the means she clutched his shoulders whereas taking additional care to not contact the again of his neck.

“It’s okay,” he stated roughly. “I…shaved it. Go forward and contact it.”

“Are you positive?”

“Contact it.”

She slowly reached for the again of her neck, however her face crumpled as quickly as her fingers got here into contact along with his pores and skin. “Oh no.”

Poppy wriggled out of his maintain and went round him. “Valerian…it’s even worse than I assumed.”

He turned to face her, and he or she was crying tougher this time. “You’ve minimize your self so many instances.”

“It’s going to heal—”

“It is best to’ve simply waited for me—”

He minimize her off, saying savagely, “I nearly killed you. Not wanting to think about it that means doesn’t make it any much less true. Do you actually assume I’d threat a repeat of what occurred for the sake of knowledgeable trim?”

However Poppy solely checked out him as if none of his phrases had registered.

“Promise me,” she begged. “Promise me you’ll by no means do that once more—”

Valerian yanked her again into his arms and buried his face in her hair.

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