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"Leavehouse," I snarled

"I've called Rush and Thad They're on their way I' you alone"

I didn't want thes I wanted to find a way to ease the pain "No! Why are you even here?"

"Tripp calledthat he was the one who had Della lass in the sink and threw it across the roo a picture

"He took her!" I roared as I grabbed a plate and hurled it across the roo took her froo with hiotta calm down She left of her own free will" I could hear the fear in Jace's voice but I didn't care I grabbed a bar stool and began sainst the counter until the wood shattered into pieces in a heap on the floor

"Holy hell" Rush's voice registered in my brain but I couldn't think I didn't want the mad," Thad said

Arainst thehter "Chill the fuck out Breathe,take a breath She isn't dead She left She's out there and it ain't over So calm the fuck down," Rush said in a stern, loud voice as he held my arht She was alive She had just left She had left "She left me," I said, and my voice broke

"Yeah, she did But you can't beat the hell out of your house It won't bring her back and you're getting out of control Get it together I knohat this feels like I've been there Losing your shit doesn't make her come back to you"

Rush had been here He knew Blaire had left him once But she'd been betrayed She'd had a reason to I hadn't hurt Della I had only loved her

"I didn't let her live," I said, lifting ht ahead at Jace and Thad, ere keeping their distance from me

"She needs some space Let her have it," Rush said

"How do I keep going? With her gone? What do I do?"

Rush let out a sigh and slowly let his hold on o to work You smile when you think you're supposed to You spend your free ti about what you'll say when you see her again Then you go to bed and hope you get soain"

I leaned against the wall and hung my head "What if she never co at first We stood there in silence a the destruction

"Then you find a way to keep living," Rush finally said, and I realized that wasto find a way, because Della o-all-in," I said as I stared down at the smashed-up bar stool

"Your what?" Jace asked

"Della washand You can't play when you go all in and lose I'm out"

"No, you're not This hand ain't over yet," Rush said

I hoped he was right