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Greg gets back up and starts his pacing again I have no idea what’s going through hiswith it He knows all about ht forstupid and cheesy I re the actors pro would ever tear thelass at the TV, screeching and screa had to forcefully holdme still for al around; he satfrom the day I met Axel at fourteen, to the day he left when I was seventeen I told hile wonderful memory we had shared within those three years Then I told him about my parents, the baby, and then the parties He knew about the deep devastation I felt when I had lost and lost and lost some more He kne and when I met Brandon; rich, successful and handsome, Brandon He kne vulnerable I had been when he walked into my life and scooped uise

Greg knew everything there was to know aboutI had shared…not once had I told hi this little bo ex-military he always sympathized with the Axel I had told him about He would always tell me that Axel wouldn’t wantand heroic person helies

Axel didn’t die a hero; he lived a betrayer

All the dreams that we had, proest slap in the face now

I have

He was the only reason I survived at the hands of Brandon I would just close ether He was my salvation in the darkest of dark

"You knohat, it doesn’t o there any he can say will heal the wounds he inflicted" Defeat and overwhel melancholy have taken root

"Iz, I don’t knohat his reasons are I don’t feel like this was intentional, baby girl, I really don’t I talked to him, I saw his face and he seeether that you are the person I talked to hi, I just can’t figure out what it is"

"Clueless, Greg? Are you kidding irl And as much as it pains me to say this, I really think you two need to sit down and talk"

"What? No way, Greg No I have nothing to say to hi Did you see how mad he was? I didn’t even see his face but I could hear it I could feel it He is acting like I did so someone?"

"I don’t know, Iz I just think there is so to be said about closure…for both of you"

Closure? I laugh to ainst the headboard Thismarbles if he thinks I can, or want, to have a sit doith Axel I can’t, I just can’t This must be so when I stopped praying No one who throws so h enough? I had just started to feel ‘nor o, G Please, just go"

I turn over and pull the sheets over my head and cry softly intodown the hall, followed by soft s

Just when I’m about to fall asleep, I feel slender arht

"Love you, Iz, ill get through this"

Dee’s reassuring words are the last thing I hear before I fall into a restless sleep, hoping for some peace to be found

Chapter 7

"God, Izzy, you feel so fucking good wrapped around ht" He rasps as he slowly thrust his long, thick length into ood as you"

His hands tighten onis rubbing ainst his sheets I dig , in keepingdown All I want to do is screale roll of his hips He gives a good push in, the tip of his generous cock hitting htning bolts of sheer pleasure shooting frole;Every single inch of my skin is on fire for this boy