Chapter 6

He Changed His Future For Her, Not Me Chapter 06

Iron Mesa ran on pain and punctuality. 

The alarms went off before sunrise. Beds had to be tight enough to bounce a quarter, boots lined up, bodies outside before the sky even changed color. 

By the end of the first week, my new boots had shredded the backs of my heels. After lights out, I sat under the thin dorm blanket and treated the blisters myself, biting the inside of my cheek until the worst of it passed. 

Tears kept sliding into my pillow anyway. 

But the next morning, when the whistle blew, I was still the first one out of bed. 

Brenna Ives, my roommate, saw the blood in my shoes and